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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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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Trenton
New Jersey
Mitchell David Mitch Albom
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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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We're Tuesday people.
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
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The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.
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I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
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I lived, Dor said, but I was not alive.
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I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
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What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
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When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
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Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.
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The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in some way to return to those days when we were completely taken care of - unconditional love, unconditional attention. Most of us didn't get enough.
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Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.
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The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.
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What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.
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Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.
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The manager once called me the 'best freak' in his stable, and, sad as it sounds, I took pride in that. When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.
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He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey, for himself. In the hospital, he stopped speaking altogether. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.' ~pg 139
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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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