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For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
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I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth.
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Are you seeing anyone romantically? he inquired. No, I'm not, she replied. Good. Please keep it that way. Because I intend to ask you to marry me.
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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Holding on to things only breaks your heart.
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The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
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There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
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Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.
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But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
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Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
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I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'
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Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
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We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
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This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
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