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Author: Tobias Wolff
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  1. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    There is only one thing you have to know about the future: everything gets worse.
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  2. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    Because she had been involved with other people , and other people muddied the water.
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  3. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    It was good to be alone. Really alone, without other people around you to let you imagine that your life had mingled with theirs. But that never was true. Even together, people were as solitary as cows in a field chewing their own cud.
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  4. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    Because they were alone. In fact everyone was alone all the time, but when you got sick you knew it, and that was a lot of what suffering was-knowing.
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  5. Tobias Wolff _ Old School

    She'd laugh at odd times as we talked and this flustered me pleasantly and made me laugh too, as if we both understood something we couldn't say.
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  6. Tobias Wolff _ Old School

    The Outlaws generally write as well as the bankers, though more briefly. Some writers flourish like opportunistic weeds by hiding among the citizens, others by toughing it out in some sort of desert or another.
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  7. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.
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  8. Tobias Wolff _ In the Garden of the North

    You just go from day to day and before you know it fifty years are up.
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  9. Tobias Wolff _ In the Garden of the North

    Look the stars are out. Don't you wish you could reach out and pick them like flowers?""I hadn't thought of it.""Life. That's the way life is to me, Howard. You keep picking things until you get the one thing that really matters. Tell me about your great love.
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  10. Tobias Wolff _ In the Garden of the North

    Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.
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  11. Tobias Wolff _ In the Garden of the North

    We're never too old for dreams.
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  12. Tobias Wolff _ In the Garden of the North

    Youth. A once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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