Top 23 Robin Black Quotes
#1. Sometimes life demands things of you, that just the fact of being alive means for allowing for possibilites that may be far from what you'd planned or even hoped.
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#2. The only thing you are allowed to take from an affair is wisdom. You can't say you are glad you did it or had moments of joy, but you can say that you learned a lot from your mistakes.
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#3. It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.
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#4. ...the thought of *never again* felt like death.
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#5. It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.
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#6. You cannot write the pages you love without writing the pages you hate. Nothing that you write is pointless, useless, or unnecessary. The product requires the process. The good days may be more enjoyable, but the tough ones are the ones they're built upon.
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#8. My creativity isn't rooted in confidence. It grows from many things, no doubt, but chief among them is a deep, rebellious, and indeed almost hostile stance toward complacency- about anything. It feels like the enemy. And certainty? It closes doors. Ends discussions. Shuts other people out.
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#9. I don't think about Terry every day, anymore. And sometimes I'm stunned by that fact. It isn't only the discomfort of disloyalty I feel, it's the fact of utter disappearance after death. The idea that as loved as we may be, we may also be forgotten. If only for a day here and there.
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#10. By forty, is there anyone who hasn't had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope for is an absence of too many tragedies and that the road through the inevitable grief be, if not smooth, then steady?
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#11. I had confessed fully-with all the misguided passion of one who believes that she is cleansing herself and forgets that she may be staining the listener.
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#12. Life. It begins and begins and begins. An infinite number of times. It is all beginnings until the end comes. Sometimes we know it and sometimes we do not, but, at every moment, life begins again.
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#13. Rejection is part of the game. Or rather, rejection is part of the profession. A profession which at times can feel like a game.
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#14. Now and then the universe just insists on changing your life in ways that you didn't ask it to.
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#15. Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
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#16. There are often two conversations going on in a marriage. The one that you're having and the one you're not.
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#17. There were some kids at Tufts who had been in the army, but they stayed to themselves. I'm pretty sure we must have seemed like babies to them.
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#18. Leaning in, he kisses her on the cheek. Like an old acquaintance, she thinks. As though there had never been any passion, nor love, nor rage, nor anything much, just some traces of innocuous familiarity between them. Live long enough, it seems, and every fire can burn itself out.
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#19. This is where they failed, all those years back, he believes. In taking care of one another when tragedy struck. It broke them, broke them all.
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#20. All of it conspiring to carry them through those first few minutes and through the front door of the house with a lightness that doesn't allow for anything as potentially heavy as an acknowledged fresh start.
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#21. What part of life isn't peculiar? Seriously? At what point, really, do you stop and say, well, THIS is really strange? THIS part. Not THAT part. But THIS part.
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#22. It is autumn, mid-October, and the greens of our first encounter with this land have dressed up in fancy costume, orange, scarlet, yellow, to welcome us. It is almost too much to take in, all the beauty.
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#23. How funny it was. The very thing that had broken her heart, now no longer wanted. A trick of time.
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