“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the… — Brock Clarke Children Copy Share Image
“Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to… — Brock Clarke Ur Eyes Copy Share Image
“I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...” — Brock Clarke Love Copy Share Image
“When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful… — Brock Clarke Stop hating Copy Share Image
“They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not… — Brock Clarke Love Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing:… — Brock Clarke Boys Copy Share Image
“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it… — Brock Clarke Actual life Copy Share Image
“I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't… — Brock Clarke Truth Copy Share Image
“But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays… — Brock Clarke Business Copy Share Image
“The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just one part of the past but… — Brock Clarke Life Copy Share Image
“This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it… — Brock Clarke Good thing Copy Share Image
“... he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.” — Brock Clarke Desperate Copy Share Image
“I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this… — Brock Clarke Books Copy Share Image
“Because this is another thing your average American man in crisis does: he tries to go home, forgetting, momentarily, that he is… — Brock Clarke First place Copy Share Image
“I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Why wasn't it more difficult? ... Shouldn't some things be difficult?” — Brock Clarke Adversity Copy Share Image
“You can never tell how you sound over the phone, that evil piece of machinery, and I would stop using one, we… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not… — Brock Clarke Business Copy Share Image
“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why… — Brock Clarke Books Copy Share Image
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