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- “It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.”Alessandro Baricco
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- “We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.”Mira Sorvino
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Books by Tobias Wolff
Old School
2003
This Boy's Life
1989
In Pharaoh's Army
1994
Night in Question
1996
In the garden of the North American martyrs
1981