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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
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Long
Protest
Songs
Whatever
Song
Form
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You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
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Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.
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Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.
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it's gonna hurt because it matters.
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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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Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.
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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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breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.
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arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
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I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.
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Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.
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I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.
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I find my greatest strengths in wanting ti be strong. I find my greatest bravery in deciding to be brave.
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I text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
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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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having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.
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And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.
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