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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.
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Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
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No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
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A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
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Life goes quickly, doesn't it?
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There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.
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Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.
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Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
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All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
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There is no formula to relationships.
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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
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I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.
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You have peace, the old woman said, when you make it with yourself.
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You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.
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Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
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Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
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Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?
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