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the bottom and then racing to the surface. I myself have never made any claims about the necessity of staring down any truths. Indeed, blinking has always seemed to me the most natural, perhaps essential, of human functions.
Jim B
Richard Russo characters are people who blink
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“Because in an ugly place, he was born with so much beauty inside him that it was like an act of rebellion.”
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“We never get that age back again, when every friend is a childhood friend, we measure all infatuations throughout our lives against that.”
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“You don’t wish for happiness when you have lost the love of your life, because you can’t even imagine ever feeling happy again. All you wish for is peace, calm, a long night’s sleep. You dream of nothing but being able to forgive time for making us old. For not letting us stay on a pier with our best friends. For letting summers end.”
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“It might sound like an unhappy ending, but only if you forget how many times during this story we've told you that someone laughed. How many really good now's is that?”
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“It is an act of violence when an adult yells at a child, all adults know that deep down, because all adults were once little. Yet we still do it. Time after time, we fail at being human beings.”
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