"There are none among us who have not……" — Rick Bass
"There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love."
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24 Quotes by Rick Bass
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Live long enough and all weaknesses will be illuminated, but again perhaps that is not all bad for cannot they…
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Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner…
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Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.
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Fit in where you don't: make your own space..be different..don't give in. Exist somewhere you're not suppose to, or where…
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I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell…
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The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you…
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The mountains have always been here, and in them, the bears.
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Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and…
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A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
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Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds.
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My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July,…
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To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
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