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Looking for Alaska (2005)
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In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
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Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.
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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.
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I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
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Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.
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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.
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How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?
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And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
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Suffering is universal. it's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
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I realized it in waves and we held on to each other crying and I thought, God we must look so lame, but it doesn't matter much when you have just now realized, all the time later, that you are still alive.
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Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.
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I've always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.
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I'm a bad boyfriend. She's a bad girlfriend. We deserve each other.
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And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.
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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.
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The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.
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She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.
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It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
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I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.
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The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.
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"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge."
"Huh?"
"Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."
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Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender at the Battle of the Bulge," I said. "I guess I'd say to this truce offer what General McAuliffe said to that one: Nuts.
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I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
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August 24, 1977
(age 46)
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