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No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
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Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.
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Scenery without solace is meaningless.
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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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Love each other or die.
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...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
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The length of your days does not belong to you.
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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
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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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You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.
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For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.
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Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.
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When you come to the end, that's where God begins.
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Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come. ~pg 4
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For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me.
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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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