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• Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

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• Maybe that’s the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that’s not.

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• I guess you don’t know what kind of guy you are until you start acting like one.

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• Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.

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• If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.

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• You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.

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• Apparently, you become yourself to someone when that someone finally learns your secrets.

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• There’s nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.

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• But maybe this is what happens when you hate someone for so long: the person you hate dies, but the hate stays with you, to keep you company.

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• Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.

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• Because we both knew that sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.

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• After a dream like that, you’re grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn’t be worse than your dream life.

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Brock Clarke (12)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Professor, Writer

About

Brock Clarke was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, The United States. He is an American author and professor. He is the author of three previous novels, Exley, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England and The Ordinary White Boy, along with two collections of short stories. His sixth book, the novel The Happiest People in the World, will be published in November 2014. He lives in Portland and teaches creative writing at Bowdoin College and in University of Tampa’s low residency MFA program.

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• 1960 - Luther Campbell
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• 1915 - Barbara Billingsley
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• 1989 - Samuel Beckett
• 1943 - Beatrix Potter
• 1940 - Nathanael West
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• 1987 - Sir Henry Thomas Cotton