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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 _ The Night in Question

    Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.
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  6. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    People with big names aren't always big people.
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  7. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    Most of our desires are clichés, right? Ready to wear, one size fits all. I doubt if it's even possible to have an original desire anymore.
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  8. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    But for now Anders can still make time. Time for the shadows to lengthen on the grass, time for the tethered dog to bark at the flying ball, time for the boy in right field to smack his sweat-blackened mitt and softly chant, They is, they is, they is.
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  9. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown. April's Father had a breakdown and they got him there in no time.
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  10. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    Nor did Anders remember seeing a woman leap to her death from the building opposite his own just days after his daughter was born. He did not remember shouting, "Lord have mercy!" He did not remember deliberately crashing his father's car in to a tree, of having his ribs kicked in by threepolicemen at an anti-war rally, or waking himself up with laughter. He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.
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  11. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    The bullet is already in the brain; it won't be outrun forever, or charmed to a halt. In the end it willdo its work and leave the troubled skull behind, dragging its comet's tail of memory and hope andtalent and love into the marble hall of commerce.
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  12. Tobias Wolff _ The Night in Question

    I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
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