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Habits Quote by Jean Thompson

“Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.” quote by Jean Thompson — Download Open image

““Somehow, television made behavior that you would go out of your way to avoid in real life into something fascinating.””

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“Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and…

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“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in a while…

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“The danger of sending your children to college was that they would be contaminated by subversive forces, bad influences and bawdy women." Rolled with…

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“Nobody knows what to do when there’s a tragedy. Nobody practices for it.”

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“She'd permed her hair to within an inch of its life. When she moved her head, the mass of hair followed along behind her…

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“Did poverty in itself lead to moral failings, such as crime? Was "goodness" something that could be objectified and measured? Did society benefit directly…

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“What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little…

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“You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But…

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“His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.”

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“He was beginning to see how having a teenager might be the equivalent of having a bad class in permanent session.”

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“She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.”

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