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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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Mitch Albom
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 23
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Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ~ The blue man
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She had a bottomless well of love for me.
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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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You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
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Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
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Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
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Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.
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I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure.
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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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She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
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