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He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.
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high-school
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At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.
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Robert Cormier |
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Go get your bus, square boy.
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Robert Cormier |
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Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there...
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war
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Robert Cormier |
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The cheese stands alone The cheese stands alone
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She didn't want to look ahead to the days and the months and the years with him. Here, now, in this room, it was all right, but later? Again, time couldn't stop. And she saw at last that time only stopped when you were dead...Time was always moving and nothing could stay the same, everything was always changing, for better or for worse. And you had to change with time, with the seasons and the years, or you would be dead too, although your ..
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Robert Cormier |
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A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.
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Robert Cormier |
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They tell you to do your thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your own thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It's a laugh, Goober, a fake. Don't disturb the universe, Goober, no matter what the posters say.
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Robert Cormier |
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Archie believed in always doing the smart thing. Not the thing you ached to do, not the impulsive act, but the thing that would pay off later.
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Robert Cormier |
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She was sleek and stylish, every hair in place, slim and elegant. When preparing meals in the kitchen or baking a cake, she never appeared disheveled, never a dab of flour on her face. Even her aprons were stylish, not merely to protect her from spills or splashes. They matched whatever she was wearing.
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Robert Cormier |
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Was this all there was to life, after all? You finished school, found an occupation, got married, became a father, watched your wife die, and then lived through days and nights that seemed to have no sunrises, no dawns and no dusks, nothing but a gray drabness.
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Robert Cormier |
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Vnizu plakatika stoiala nadpis': Osmelius' li ia potrevozhit' vselennuiu? Slova Eliota -- avtora <>, kotoruiu oni prokhodili po literature. [...] -- Vse budet khorosho, Dzherri. Net, ne budet. On uznal golos Struchka, i emu vazhno bylo podelit'sia so Struchkom svoim otkrytiem. On dolzhen byl skazat' Struchku: beri miach, igrai v futbol, begai, vstupai v komandu, prodavai konfety, prodavai vse, chto tebe veliat, delai vse, ..
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Robert Cormier |
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He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.
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Robert Cormier |
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We just might make a quarterback out of you yet, you skinny little son of a bitch.
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Robert Cormier |
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Para los demas, el no era mas que un nombre y un apellido. Pero Nina Citrone lo habia reconocido como persona, habia visto en el una amabilidad cuya existencia el mismo desconocia.
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Robert Cormier |