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February 14th, 2013
Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can’t sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you’ve had? So they look like a play?
Well you should. It’s fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby
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August 21st, 2012
Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.
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You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It’s all about survival; it’s all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.
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December 29th, 2011
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
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