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Darin Strauss Biography

Darin Strauss (born March 1, 1970) is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Strauss's most recent book is Half a Life, which won the 2011 NBCC Award for memoir/autobiography.

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I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.

Brightest, Giving, Kissing, Mom, People, Senior

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

Capable, Early, Sometimes, World

Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.

Fall, Rose, Falling, Fell, Stopped

By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

Gemstones, Light, Skin, Skins, Watch, Watches

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

Sibling, Distance, Passion, Faces, Platonic, Friendliness

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

Kindness, Self, Special, Speak, Toward, Reverie

Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.

Biography, Book, Cities, Lesson, Little Sister, Recommend

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

Awkward, Cracks, Friendships, Measured, Old Friendship, Pauses

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Crazy, Family, Funhouse, Normal, Perfectly Normal, Thinking

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

Amend, Crazy, Human, Pebble, Regret, Want

A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.

Crimping, Crowded, Guy, Player, Tragedy, Witnesses

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

Bedside, Deception, Dying, Embers, Self

Diminish the influence of fate

Diminish, Fate, Influence

I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

Dark, Emotional, Kind, Running, Runs, Switchboard

Things don't go away. They become you.

Away, Become, Going Away, Things