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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
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Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
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A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.
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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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With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have
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He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.
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Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.
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The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
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Please, please, please, please, please...,, squeezing his eyes shut because it somehow made the words more pure.
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Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.
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Don't get too attached to anything.
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Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.
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Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.
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But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.
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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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I like myself better when I'm with you.
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One day can bend your life.
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
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I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
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