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You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

Robert Cormier

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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
Author
Journalist
Writer
Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
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Children
Reliant
Double
Cross
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Independent
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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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Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
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...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
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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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You have to accept the critical reviews if they treat you with respect. Actually, it's one person's opinion. So, it's a concern but not an overriding one, and I don't stay up nights worrying about reviews. But there are certain people I respect who I hope will like a book.
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You hope that people read your book and say Yes, this is the way it is or could be. But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.
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Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?
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It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.
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Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
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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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Kids tell me all the time, I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book. That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.
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I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, The play's the thing. In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.
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I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
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A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
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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.
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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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He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
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