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I don't want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I'm learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.
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Barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.
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You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?" I shake my head. "You try to leave the lives the way you found them." "Yeah." "But what about Justin? What made that so different?" "You," I say.
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There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.
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I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.
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I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you are talking to him, you are not thinking about the fact that you are talking to him. That is, your thoughts and words all exist on a single, engaged level. You are being yourself because you aren't bothering to think about who you should be. It is like when you talk in a dream.
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You make it a production. Slam doors. Knock things over. Scream. But I just leave. Even if I'm still standing there, I leave. I am refusing you. I am denying you. I am an adjective that is quickly turning into a noun.
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Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
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There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.
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Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.
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Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
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But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.
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I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.
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A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.
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If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.
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And when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
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And I find myself saying, It wasn't really about her. And finding it's true. What do you mean? Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.
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After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are
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If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.
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You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.
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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
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When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? "It's over when you decide it's over," she says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.
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Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and i gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.
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Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.
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The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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September 7, 1972
(age 51)
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