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If knowing someone makes that person stay with you forever, not knowing someone does the same trick: death does not take the dead away; it only makes them grow more deeply into you.

"You know what I hate about people? They like to say, That will teach you a lesson.' But what's the point of a lesson? There's no makeup exam when you fail something in life."

Sometimes a job chooses you. Does a bricklayer love his bricks? Does the dishwasher repairman love the dishwashers?

Time, like air and water, erodes. And there are very few things in life that are impervious to time’s erosion.