Darin Strauss Quotes
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Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths:…
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Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
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A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment,…
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By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know.…
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Diminish the influence of fate
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Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
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I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly…
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Things don't go away. They become you.
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The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
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I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and…
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I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on…
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