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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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Fredrik Backman
“If you were his friend, I’m sorry. Because the whole world lost an artist, but you lost your human. And I’m sorry you had to share that with the rest of us. You should be allowed to have your grief in peace.”
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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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“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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“What I hate most isn’t that people die. What I hate most is that they’re dead. That I’m alive, without them.”
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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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