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" We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die. "
Mitch Albom
Two
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" For better or for worse, I've watched people die in front of me. I see how they are in the end. And they're not cynical. In the end, they wanna hold somebody's hand. And that's real to me. "
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" I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality. "
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" Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers. "
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" I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life. "
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" Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.' "
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" In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style. "
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" People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. "
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" Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader. "
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" If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf. "
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" If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow. "
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" You have to work at creating your own culture. "
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" For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. "
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" I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?' "
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" I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. "
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" People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. "
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" The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. "
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" Love each other or die. "
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" I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling. "
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" I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones. "
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" You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean. "
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" My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions. "
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" I believe that you live on inside the hearts and minds of everyone you've touched while you were here on earth. "
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" Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.' "
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" If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life. "
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" I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day. "
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