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It's a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.

It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too.
– Garth Risk Hallberg

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  1. The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he’ll ever get where he’s going, and behind him, where he’s come from might as well not be there. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  2. The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  3. Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they’re not around other people. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  4. You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  5. And didn’t time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? – Garth Risk Hallberg
  6. There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  7. It’s like Charlie’s dreamed everything he lived through here. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  8. Everything’s always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  9. Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  10. William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy- – Garth Risk Hallberg
  11. No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  12. Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else’s head. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  13. Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  14. William loathed his family,’ Mercer said. ‘With cause. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  15. As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  16. When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  17. Whatever he’s feeling at a given moment is what he’s always been and always will be feeling. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  18. And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? – Garth Risk Hallberg
  19. Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  20. And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  21. And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret-”to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  22. America isn’t that far from totalitarianism. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  23. There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  24. I didn’t drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all. – Garth Risk Hallberg
  25. The Lesson is Life and Life is the Lesson, and the Lesson does not contain a single Atom. – RSD
  26. It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person’s history from their face. – Naama Yehuda
  27. When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
  28. Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  29. There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. – Elizabeth von Arnim
  30. A daughter of God knows that insecurity is not an excuse for doing evil to others, nor will God rest until caring for everyone is a lesson you learn. – Shannon L Alder
  31. What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
  32. Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. Love is not about only about caring, but it is also about what type of feeling for caring – Abhishek Sachdeva
  34. Caring a tree is caring of your soul. – Amit Ray
  35. The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you. – Steven Ivy Attorney Entrepreneur
  36. Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship. – C Christopher Smith
  37. I eye the three of them, considering. They’ll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldn’t like that. – Eliza Crewe
  38. You don’t always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement. – Bryant McGill
  39. For every mistake is a lesson and for every lesson learned is victory. – Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre
  40. You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. – Lauren DeStefano

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