Robert Goolrick

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born

Virginia, The United States

gender

male

website

http://robertgoolrick.com/

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

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Robert Goolrick was born in a small town in Virginia and attended John Hopkins University.

Fired after 30 years in the advertising business, Goolrick wrote his memoir, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life. A Reliable Wife is his first novel.

Goolrick currently lives in New York City.

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Robert Goolrick's Books

Average rating: 3.25 · 50,621 ratings · 8,843 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	A Reliable Wife 3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 46,499 ratings — published 2009 — 47 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heading Out To Wonderful 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 3,314 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life 3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 808 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Robert Goolrick

“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

372 people liked it

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

tags: longing, love, sad, searching, unrequited-love

339 people liked it

“I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

tags: abuse, death, grief, loss, pain

99 people liked it

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