Nathan Hill Quotes

#1. It's the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.

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#2. The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

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#3. There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure.

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#4. Love is like this, Faye thinks now. We love people because they love us. It's narcissistic. It's best to be perfectly clear about this and not let abstractions like fate and destiny muddle the issue. Peggy, after all, could have picked any boy in the school.

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#5. It's all arbitrary. Had Faye attended a different school. Had her parents moved away. Had Peggy been sick that day. Had she chosen a different boy. And on and on. A thousand permutations, a million possibilities, and almost all of them kept Faye from sitting here in the sand with Henry.

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#6. A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?

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#7. Maybe desire was best left unspoken.

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#8. Blaming his students for being uninspired was so much easier than doing the work required to inspire them.

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#9. It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.

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#10. Seeing ourselves clearly is the project of a lifetime.

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#11. It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise.

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#12. Any problem you face in a video game or in life is one of four things: an enemy, obstacle, puzzle, or trap. That's it. Everyone you meet in life is one of those four things.

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#13. You have to be careful," Pwnage said, "with people who are puzzles and people who are traps. A puzzle can be solved but a trap cannot. Usually what happens is you think someone's a puzzle until you realize they're a trap. But by then it's too late. That's the trap.

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#14. Love, when freely given, duplicates and multiplies. Still,

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#15. a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.

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#16. The nurses in Willow Glen didn't try to prevent death. But they did try to guide you to die in the right way. Because if you died from something you weren't supposed to die from, families became suspicious.

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#17. The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There's a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything.

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#18. What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind's secrets.

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#19. The best way to feel like you really belong to a group is to invent another group to hate. Which

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#20. Coming home at the end of a long day to someone who's glad you're back, is the feeling that keeps him logging on and playing upward of forty hours a week in preparation for a raid like this, when he gathers with his anonymous online friends and together they go kill something big and deadly.

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#21. He's looking for people he can be himself around. Aren't we all?

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#22. there is not one true self hidden by many false ones. Rather, there is one true self hidden by many other true ones. Yes,

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#23. In America, the government is accountable to the people, not the other way around," says a constitutional law scholar sympathetic to the antiwar movement on the subject of the anonymous police.

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#24. He's like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn't get what he wanted.

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#25. Anger was such an easy emotion to feel, the refuge of someone who didn't want to work too hard. Because his

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#26. if you make the easy choice every day, then it becomes a pattern, and your patterns become your life.

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#27. And come to think of it, maybe this is the most important lesson the school could teach them about the American workplace: how to sit calmly at your desk and surf the internet and not go insane.

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#28. the people in your life are either enemies, obstacles, puzzles, or traps.

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#29. There is no place less communal in America - no place less cooperative and brotherly, no place with fewer feelings of shared sacrifice - than a rush-hour freeway in Chicago.

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#30. Beyond everything else, she loves this: how swiftly things can strike her - music, people, life - how quickly they can surprise her, all of a sudden, like a punch.

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#31. You never even decided that your life would be this way. It's simply the way it's become. You've been carved out by the things that have happened to you like how the canyon can't tell the river which way to shape it. It just allows it to be cut.

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#32. It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.

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#33. Because one thing she's learned through all this is that if a new beginning is really new; it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid;

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#34. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If

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#35. What do you do when you discover your adult life is a sham?

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#36. This is what you get in the suburbs, his mother said, the satisfaction of small desires. The

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#37. Samuel thought how his father married to his mother was like a spoon married to a garbage disposal.

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#38. They were coming back to his mother's neighborhood now, the eastern boundary of which was a bridge spanning a know of train tracks that cut through the city like a zipper.

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#39. Perhaps, sir, for our purposes, sir, you shouldn't think of it as your mother abandoned you. Instead, perhaps think of it as she gave you up for adoption slightly later than usual.

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#40. He longs for someone in the crowd to see the haunted expression he's sure is playing all over his face right now and come up to him and say, You seem to be experiencing overwhelming pain, how can I help you?

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#41. Eventually, all debts must be repaid.

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#42. A taxi. The driver vaults out and screams "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!" pointing at Samuel as if to specially emphasize that it is him - and no one else - who needs to be fucked.

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#43. It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony.

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#44. Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's. So

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#45. There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.

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#46. that you didn't know what to do except smash your face into hers, back when kissing was not a signpost along the way but rather the destination itself.

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#47. He swears. He promises. One of these days will be the day that changes everything.

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#48. The things you love the most will one day hurt you the worst.

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#49. What you call conflict of interest, I call synergy.

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#50. about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don't know what your small true part is until much later.

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#51. People love each other for many reasons, not all of them good," she said. "They love each other because it's easy. Or because they're used to it. Or because they've given up. Or because they're scared. People can be a Nix for each other.

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#52. The only fundamental truth is greed, and the only question is who is up front about this. That's the new authenticity.

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