Dominic Smith Quotes

#1. But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

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#2. daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

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#3. You outlive your wife, then your colleagues and friends, then your accountant and the building doorman. ou no longer attend the opera, because the human bladder can only endure so much. Social engagements require strategy and hearing aid calibrations. pg 269

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#4. There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

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#5. The past is more alive to her than the present, she realizes, and the thought is suffocating.

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#6. Poverty appeared first in their meals, then in their shoes, and finally in their thoughts and prayers. Still,

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#7. Couldn't decades of eating the best foods, taking the best vacations, and sleeping in the finest beds prevent the slumping of the frame and the spackling of the skin?

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#8. The past and the present coagulate into something that makes sense to him.

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#9. Old age is having the name of a chiropractor in your wallet. It's cutting out coupons for the zeal of discounted small items and the practice of fine motor skills.

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#10. Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.

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#11. It took him years to realize it was the flirtation and admiration he craved, not the actual conquest.

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#12. Can you create a vacuum out of a human life? A state where everything's possible but nothing very likely? Does something new emerge when there's no more empty space?

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#13. You say love's so important, but how can you prove it?
Love is like soap, it works if you use it.

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#14. Every morning I stand here and watch the sun gild the trees and the grottoes. It's like drawing a breath before the day begins in earnest.

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#15. It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.

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#16. We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.

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#17. Love is not like choosing a partner for whist. It has a life of its own. our duty is merely to follow its call.

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#18. The lights have been dimmed and the window is awash in the blackness and he can see a hairline fracture of dawn against the horizon.

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#19. The body thinks it's real. That's the problem of modern physics. How to convince our minds that they're not our own.

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#20. The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

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#21. They covered their walls with beautiful paintings for the same reason they drank - to distract themselves from the abyss.

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#22. The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater.

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