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What are we allowed to do when we're looking for things we're required to do?
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... I'll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I've been so old for so long for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me— Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.
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Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets again, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
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We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.
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I was a looker someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back- always everyone looking forward, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look over at you? Why would they care?
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First Of All:
I am tired.
I am true of heart!
And Also:
You are tired.
You are true of heart!
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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
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I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost unbelievable strength, to know that you are there. I covet your eyes, your ears, the collapsible space between us. How blessed are we to have each other? I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.
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Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me.
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It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.
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Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane.
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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.
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My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving.
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We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us.
'Suckers.' I tell Toph, thumbing toward those watching from so far away. It is important, I feel, that the boy knows what suckers look like.
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You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.
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Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don't, right?
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Why do you want to be on The Real World? -Because I want everyone to witness my youth Why? -Isn't it gorgeous?
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You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.
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The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.
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We sleep when we fall. We only sleep when we can't move anymore. That's juvenile. But it means everything. It's the illusion of progress. Staying awake isn't progress. The illusion is enough.
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The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
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When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.
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We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.
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In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?
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I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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March 12, 1970
(age 54)
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Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his subsequent work as a novelist and screenwriter.
Known for:
The Circle (2013)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000)
Zeitoun (2009)
What Is the What (2006)
A Hologram for the King (2012)
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