"when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth."

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Mitch Albom

#Firsts Quotes #Earth Quotes #Jokes Quotes

“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.”
“Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.”
“I'm an action player. I like to be aggressive. I don't like to be on the run. I like to feel like I have the fates in my hands and that through my skill or lack thereof I control my fate.”
“I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.”
“A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.”
“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
“Nah, that's not true.”
“In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious”

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