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Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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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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How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.
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He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things will only break your heart.
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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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The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down.
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Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
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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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What will you do with the time you have left?
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Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.
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Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.
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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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What in life can love not penetrate?
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When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
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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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When you're in bed, you're dead
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We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.
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I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented. “Love does not make you a fool.” “He didn’t love me back.” “That does not make you a fool, either.” “Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?” “Sometimes never.
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
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You have to start over. That's what they say. But life is not a board game, and losing a loved one is never really starting over. More like continuing without.
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We do not realize the sound the world makes -- unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra.
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