The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt...He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return.
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ROBIN WILLIAMS Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Do... ROBIN WILLIAMS For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. ... ROBIN WILLIAMS In America they really do mythologise people when they die. ROBIN WILLIAMS The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev. ROBIN WILLIAMS When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone i... ROBIN WILLIAMS I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform i... ROBIN WILLIAMS I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call m... ROBIN YOUNT Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si... ROBIN THICKE Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready. ROBIN WILLIAMS I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who be... ROBIN LEACH Burnout comes easy in the high-pressure world of television, and when the opportunity arose to move ... ROBIN LEACH I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige. ROBIN THICKE I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do? ROBIN THICKE It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'... ROBIN ROBERTS There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is no... ROBIN LEACH As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to. ROBIN MCKINLEY Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny... ROBIN MORGAN One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that ... ROBIN WOOD There's something contagious about demanding freedom. ROBIN MORGAN Rise and rise again until lambs become lions ROBIN HOOD Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are as strange as hell. ROBIN MORGAN Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money. ROBIN WILLIAMS It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning,... ROBIN MORGAN You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams. ROBIN WILLIAMS Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!' ROBIN WILLIAMS Carpe per diem - seize the check. ROBIN WILLIAMS Neil: The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard. ROBIN WILLIAMS Freud: If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother. ROBIN WILLIAMS Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures�... ROBIN WILLIAMS God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the ... ROBIN WILLIAMS See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a ti... ROBIN WILLIAMS Mr. Keating: Seize the day! Make your lives extraordinary. ROBIN WILLIAMS Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! ROBIN WILLIAMS Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" ROBIN WILLIAMS Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. ROBIN WILLIAMS If ballet were easy, they'd call it football ROBIN WILLIAMS Cocaine is God's way of telling you you're making too much money. ROBIN WILLIAMS Cricket is basically baseball on valium. ROBIN WILLIAMS