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me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
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Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.
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In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
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We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.
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Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.
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...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.
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Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.
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If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.
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this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.
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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
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It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.
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But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?
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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.
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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.
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We do not start as dust. We do not end as dust. We make more than dust. That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.
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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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This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.
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The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whether or not we should move in together. These kinds of fights can never be won – even if you’re the victor, you’ve hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.
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This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.
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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
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