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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.
Robert Cormier
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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
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Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
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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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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
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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.
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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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...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 sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.
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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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