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I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. —Virginia Woolf Sometimes I wish my first word was “quote,” so that on my death bed, my last words could be “end quote.” —Steven Wright

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“Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: friendship, heart, kindness

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“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: convicts, criminals, god, good-and-bad, good-and-evil, heaven, idealism, jesus, life-lessons, prejudice, prejudices, religion

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“In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.”
― Michael Shaara

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