10 Quotes & Sayings By Michael Perry

Michael Perry was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended college at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he completed a double major in History and Political Science. In 1995 Michael graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Psychology. Michael has been a licensed therapist since 1993, and has been working as a marriage and family therapist since 2003.

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Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I start rummaging around for printed material.p 97 Michael Perry
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We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.p 294 Michael Perry
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The tough times start, " he said, "the day the last casserole dish is returned. Michael Perry
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It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward. Michael Perry
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I stand beside Tom's barn and ponder the benign heedlessness of the people in the speeding cars, and here I am in the speeding car. In my heart I wish the bypass had never been built; in my car I never take the old way. Michael Perry
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Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.p 44 Michael Perry
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[Fire] is lightfooted and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed molecule at a time, wreaking utter destruction with a touch softer than breath. Its poor cousins, wind and water, are one-dimensional rubes by comparison. Wind is all push, push, push. Water is suffocating, but passively so. And even when water gets it together to be a torrent or a tsunami, it is but wet wind. Fire is at once elemental and otherworldly. Fire dances on the grave of all it destroys. Fire is serious voodoo. Michael Perry
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But the sky...cumulonimbus clouds are stacked and banked to the stratosphere, and the lowering sun has bronzed and brassed and blushed them. these are clouds to make you long for wings. These are clouds that leave you not knowing what to believe. - - - Population 485 - Meeting your Neighbors One Siren at a Time Michael Perry
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Over the years, I have developed a visceral reaction to families and victims expressing surprise at tragedy. Why are we surprised? Why do we forget we are mortal? Bad, bad things happen everywhere, every day. Humans, for better or worse, harbor this feeling that we - individually - are special. A patch of ice or a pea-sized blood clot makes a mockery of that illusion in a heartbeat. We are not special at all. Michael Perry