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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
Form
Live
Take
Long
Protest
Songs
Whatever
Song

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Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
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Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.
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There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.
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Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.
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I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.
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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.
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I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
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I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
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It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.
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There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?
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For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
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His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.
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I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.
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This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.
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So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.
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I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.
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It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.
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Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.
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You don't know, but I'm noticing.
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