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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.
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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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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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Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
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Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to, sometimes because they want to. Always, they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad, layered stories of life, which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms, and cowardice confused with laying them down.
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I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head. A child should never have to choose.
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In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And at the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?’ His voice dropped to a whisper. ‘But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well.
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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.
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You're not listening with your eyes.
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Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
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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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We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
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Never tell a child that something it's too hard
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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
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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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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
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