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> [I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a Zen detachment turns out to be naked fear. You'd had one serious love relationship in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-felt-i-was-drawing-close-to-that-age-that-place-in-life-where-you/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

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## More by Roland Merullo

> [The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/the-number-of-poor-and-poorly-prepared-students-who-succeed-in/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/the-past-shouts-at-you-the-ugly-words-or-actions-echo-down-across-the/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/all-american-and-proud-of-it-too-rich-and-soft-and-flawed-to-make-any/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“I thought I heard a cow mooing in Seese's back yard. Later on, later down the road, as they say, I would learn that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-thought-i-heard-a-cow-mooing-in-seese-s-back-yard-later-on-later/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“There are some kinds of sorrow that words can never reach, certain kinds of things you can never hold in the box of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/there-are-some-kinds-of-sorrow-that-words-can-never-reach-certain/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/you-keep-telling-yourself-it-will-be-different-year-after-year-time/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/if-we-somehow-find-the-courage-to-go-directly-into-the-discomfort/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/some-point-you-had-to-risk-the-ridicule-of-the-mob-of-your-own/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/isn-t-mockery-the-province-of-the-insecure/)

[roland merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/simply-by-being-your-absolute-most-genuine-self-in-every-interaction/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/you-ask-a-certain-question-again-and-again-in-a-sincere-fashion-and/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“I’m not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-m-not-great-at-talking-to-people-i-have-all-these-thoughts-bunching/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/i-felt-i-was-drawing-close-to-that-age-that-place-in-life-where-you/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger that knifes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/some-people-use-their-own-hurt-as-an-excuse-for-hurting-others-or-for/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

> [“There was a small glass vase between us, three gladioli in a few ounces of water. One of the gladioli had dropped a petal-…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roland-merullo/there-was-a-small-glass-vase-between-us-three-gladioli-in-a-few/)

[Roland Merullo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roland-merullo/)

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