Darin Strauss Quotes

• Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

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  Regret, Crazy, Want

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.178, Random House

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• Things don't go away. They become you.

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  Going Away

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.186, Random House

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• By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

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  Light, Skins, Watches

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House

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• I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.

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  Senior, Mom, Kissing

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.32, Random House

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• I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Perfectly Normal

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House

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• I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

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  Running, Dark, Emotional

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.14, Random House

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• A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

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  Player, Guy, Tragedy

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.9, Random House

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• The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

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  Awkward, Cracks, Old Friendship

  Darin Strauss (2014). “More Than It Hurts You”, p.233, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

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  Self, Deception, Dying

  Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.13, Penguin

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• Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

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  Kindness, Self, Special

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.57, Random House

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• Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

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  World, Sometimes, Capable

  Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.20, Penguin

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• Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

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  Sibling, Distance, Passion

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• Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.

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  Book, Cities, Little Sister

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• Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

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  Fall, Rose

  Darin Strauss (2014). “More Than It Hurts You”, p.69, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Diminish the influence of fate

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  Fate, Influence, Diminish

  Darin Strauss (2001). “Chang and Eng”, p.222, Penguin

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