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  1. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.
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  2. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    Griffin's mother loathed grading papers, too, of course. Who didn't? But she was meticulous about correcting errors, offering style and content suggestions in the margins, asking pointed, often insulting, questions {How long did you work on this?} and then answering them herself {Not long, one hopes, given the result}.
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  3. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    For people who dealt largely in dreams, his father was fond of observing, realtors were a surprisingly unromantic bunch, like card counters in a Vegas casino.
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  4. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    Non basta una vita "One life isn't enough
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  5. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness.
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  6. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming.
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  7. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    The drive back to the Mid-fucking-west was always brutal, his parents barely speaking to each other, as if suddenly recalling last year's infidelities, or maybe contemplating whom they'd settle for this year. Sex, if you went by Griffin's parents, definitely took a backseat to real estate on the passion gauge.
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  8. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation."
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  9. Richard Russo _ That Old Cape Magic

    He'd discovered that his memories of that summer were like bad movie montages - young lovers tossing a Frisbee in the park, sharing a melting ice-cream cone, bicycling along the river, laughing, talking, kissing, a sappy score drowning out the dialogue because the screenwriter had no idea what these two people might say to each other.
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