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It's been a complicated decade for me.
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He's happy. And isn't that the worst of all possible outcomes?
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We live in a world of disposable memory. Nothing's built to last, not even shame.
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Why?" Rachel said (the eternal why, as she'd come to think of it). "Was he that bad?" "I never heard he was bad," Ann Marie said with a minor slur and a sad grimace. She looked out through the screen at the stone-colored mist in the gray hills and spoke with a firm finality. "Honey, I only heard that he'd moved on."
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He gave her a long, worried look, but cars were stacking up behind them and dusk was gathering. A horn blared. Then another. He handed her a business card--Kenny's Cabinets--and told her to call him anytime. She thanked him and got out of the minivan. As he drove away, she realized the van wasn't even red. It was bronze.
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She couldn't tell if the sadness in his smile stemmed from pity for her or if he just possessed a sad smile.
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They couldn't catch you if you didn't stop running.
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perseverance
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I want the capital-G God the televangelists claim moves tornadoes out of their paths. The one who cures cancer and arthritis in the faithful, the God professional athletes thank for taking an interest in the outcome of the Super Bowl or World Cup or home run in the 87th of 162 games played by the Red Sox this year.
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god
natural-disasters
athiesm
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For every solution, a problem.
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You felt it in your soul, no place else. You felt the truth there sometimes--beyond logic--and you were usually right if it was a type of truth that was the exact kind you didn't want to face, weren't sure you could. That's what you tried to ignore, why you went to psychiatrists and spent too long in bars and numbed your brain in front of TV tubes--to hide from hard, ugly truths your soul recognized long before your mind caught up.
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Over his mother's shoulder, Jimmy saw his father stumble out of the house, his clothes wrinkled and his face puffy with sleep or booze or both...His mother followed Jimmy's gaze and when she looked back at him, she was worn out again, the smile gone so completely from her face, you'd have been surprised she knew how to make one.
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A man is the stories he tells about himself and most of those stories are lies. And never look too closely if you uncover his lies, it will humiliate you both. Its best to just live with the bullshit." Then her mother kissed her head, patted her cheek, told her she was safe."
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I got divorced today," she said. "I lost my job--no, correct that, my career--six months ago, as you well know, because I had a panic attack on the air. I've grown terrified of people, not particular people, but in general, which is worse. I've spent the last few months a virtual shut-in. And honestly? I can't wait to get back to it. Brian, there's nothing I like about myself."
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After all this suffering, the faces seemed to ask, are we to accept that suffering is the point?
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It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What's that say about the rest of us?
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I'm just bones in a box, Teddy.
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death
death-of-a-loved-one
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I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum.
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