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A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.
Robert Cormier
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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
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Journalist
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Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
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Standing
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Mother
Jerry
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Terrific
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Sadness
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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
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Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
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And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
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I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.
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I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
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It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.
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