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Tobias Wolff Quote: “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.”

51. “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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Tobias Wolff Quote: “I’m a survivor, ” I said. But I didn’t think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.”

52. “I’m a survivor, ” I said. But I didn’t think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.”

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Tobias Wolff Quote: “Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure – seeing life through the eyes of another.”

53. “Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure – seeing life through the eyes of another.”

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Tobias Wolff Quote: “I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best.”

54. “I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best.”

— Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff Quote: “I had no right to see them this way.”

55. “I had no right to see them this way.”

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Tobias Wolff Quote: “Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.”

56. “Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember, forever.”

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Tobias Wolff Quote: “Anders turns and looks at him. He wants to hear Coyle’s cousin repeat what he’s just said, but he knows better than to ask. The others will think he’s being a jerk, ragging the kid for his grammar. But that isn’t it, not at all-it’s that Anders is strangely roused, elated, by those final two words, their pure unexpectedness and their music. He takes the field in a trance, repeating them to himself.”

57. “Anders turns and looks at him. He wants to hear Coyle’s cousin repeat what he’s just said, but he knows better than to ask. The others will think he’s being a jerk, ragging the kid for his grammar. But that isn’t it, not at all-it’s that Anders is strangely roused, elated, by those final two words, their pure unexpectedness and their music. He takes the field in a trance, repeating them to himself.”

— Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff Quote: “You boys know what tropism is, it’s what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don’t have to chase down a fly to get rid of it – you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can’t dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.”

58. “You boys know what tropism is, it’s what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don’t have to chase down a fly to get rid of it – you just darken the room, leave a crack of light in a window, and out he goes. Works every time. We all have that instinct, that aspiration. Science can’t dim that. All science can do is turn out the false lights so the true light can get us home.”

— Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff Quote: “The life that produces writing can’t be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind’s business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee.”

59. “The life that produces writing can’t be written about. Is is a life carried on without the knowledge even of the writer, below the mind’s business and noise, in deep unlit shafts where phantom messengers struggle toward us, killing one another along the way; and when a few survivors break through to our attention they are received as blandly as waiters bringing more coffee.”

— Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff Quote: “Because I did not know who I was, any image of myself, no matter how grotesque, had power over me.”

60. “Because I did not know who I was, any image of myself, no matter how grotesque, had power over me.”

— Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff Quote: “There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.”

61. “There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.”

— Tobias Wolff

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