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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

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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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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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Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins
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One withers, another grows.
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but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
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I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.
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Small towns are like metronomes with the slightest flick, the beat changes.
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Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
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Something is always happening somewhere.
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We all know how to be a child.
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I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.
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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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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
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Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
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All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.
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One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
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The length of your days does not belong to you.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
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