Quotes From "Chronic Passions" By Bruce Crown

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In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. Bruce Crown
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A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course. Bruce Crown
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Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to be above average, let them to believe that it was others who were affected by this case but not them. Everyone thought they had the quintessential ability to detach themselves from the cases they were working, even if the victim looked and behaved exactly like their son, daughter, niece or nephew. Bruce Crown
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He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups. Bruce Crown
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A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears. Bruce Crown
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We enter this universe alone in search of microscopic beauty–and while we love, or are loved by others–we leave this world completely alone, having only found infinite sorrow. Despite there being so many of us, each of us tragically realizes that everyone is on a solitary journey. No one else can see what we see, hear what we hear, feel, what we feel. All we have of each other are glimpses of moments, whispers of experiences, memories of the past we wish we could make eternal, but in the end, we become a faint memory in the minds of a few good people. . Bruce Crown
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His studies were always second to Beatrice. He would've said everything was second to Beatrice but the flowery metaphors and literary devices can only stretch so far and for so many characters. Bruce Crown
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Hawks with broken wings; lions with broken paws; men with broken hearts, they all have one thing in common: they're all as sure to die as those unbroken. Bruce Crown