Top 38 Tommy Wallach Quotes
#1. Paris? People always say Paris is the shit. "Yes, I've never understood the American obsession with that city. The food is actually quite terrible on the whole, and the people can be rather awful if you don't speak the language.
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#2. Today was just another shit day in a life that sometimes felt like a factory specializing in the construction of shit days.
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#3. When change loses its magic, then there really isn't anything left to live for.
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#4. The popular shall become unpopular. The freak shall inherit the Earth.
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#5. Andy was speechless. He'd forgotten that there was actually another person in the room- someone with her own needs and desires and shit to freak out about. But it was funny, or better than funny, that sometimes two people could be feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time.
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#6. Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.
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#7. As a little kid, Peter had figured that once you reached a certain age, somebody just handed you all the knowledge you'd need in order to be an adult. But it turned out that wasn't how it worked.
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#8. On the other side of the rock, some words were carved: AND GOD SAW THAT THE WICKEDNESS OF MAN WAS GREAT IN THE EARTH
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#9. The end of the world revealed the futility of all commemorative plaques.
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#10. She was miserable because she kept hoping things would change. If she could eradicate the hope, she could eradicate the sadness.
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#11. Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless
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#12. This is the twenty-first century. The oceans are rising. Mad dictators have access to nuclear weapons. Corporatism and the dumbing down of the media have destroyed the very foundations of democracy. Anyone who isn't afraid is a moron." There
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#13. He was the kind of guy who had a unique facial expression dedicated to thinking.
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#15. Then I'll just tell you that it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Blame is just a way to keep score, and adults don't play games like that.
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#16. Just another little piece of utterly irrelevant history, aspiring to permanence, doomed to oblivion.
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#17. Why had he assumed time was some sort of infinite resource? Now the hourglass had busted open, and what he'd always assumed was just a bunch of sand turned out to be a million tiny diamonds.
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#18. Fear swept in to fill the silence. Fear of disappearing, of the dark, of the unknown. Fear or being somewhere without this love to define him. 'Don't stop talking,' he tried to say.
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#19. She didn't look back, but she did break her stride for half a second, which was really the most you could hope for with a girl like that.
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#20. Love is the exception to the law of diminishing returns.
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#21. the fundamental rule of life: Things were never so bad that they couldn't get worse.
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#22. I think that kids have a knack for detecting happiness, but they lose it as they get older. They have to. Otherwise they'd notice how unhappy everybody else is, and they'd never be able to be happy themselves.
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#23. Life would take everything from you eventually. So who would be so stupid to leave someone they loved by choice?
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#24. Instead of a few months, the doctors gave him a year. That was how you could be lucky without being lucky. That was how you could be a winner and still lose.
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#25. Karass: A group of people linked in a cosmically significant manner, even when superficial linkages are not evident
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#26. People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.
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#27. Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?
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#28. Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.
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#29. She believed photography to be the greatest of all art forms because it was simultaneously junk food and gourmet cuisine, because you could snap dozens of pictures in a couple of hours, then spend dozens of hours perfecting just a couple of them.
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#30. It was incredible, the way that people kept on going, whether they were dying of pancreatic cancer or drug addiction or the apocalypse itself.
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#31. (the difference between coldness and coolness was, after all, simply a matter of degree).
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#32. You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.
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#33. He thought he would choke to death on it, on the harsh truth he'd been trying to ignore his entire life: that no matter how bad he wanted it or how he hard he tried to get it, he would never be worthy of anyone's love.
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#34. There's a word in Portuguese that my dad wrote about in one of his books: saudade.
It's the sadness you feel for something that isn't gone yet, but will be. The sadness of lost causes. The sadness of being alive.
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#35. She'd prepared herself for any amount of awkwardness or anger, but no for a hug that was probably the longest she'd ever received from a boy, one of those hugs that made it clear how much the person hugging you was in need of a hug, or believed YOU to be in need of a hug.
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#36. Peter put his arm around her waist and pulled her tight to his side. Eliza had already noticed that he did this whenever he was about to disagree wit her; it was yet another manifestation of his just-shy-of-ridiculous tenderness.
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#37. It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.
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#38. You don't wanna go out of this world with regrets. If there's some-
thing you want to do, you do it. You take this life by the balls and you tell it that you existed.
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