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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
Songs
Whatever
Song
Form
Live
Take
Long
Protest

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Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.
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When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.
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I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it.
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People are always separable.
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only adj. thats the dilemma isn't it? when you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.
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Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
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You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.
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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper
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I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.
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Every you, every me. Fractals. Fractures.
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Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person hasn't suffered like everyone else, doesn't mean they don't hope to still be a good human being in an awful world.
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I always think of each night as a song. Or each moment as a song. But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song. We move from song to song, from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord. There is no ending here. It's an infinite playlist.
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There is the sudden. There is the eventual. And in between, there is the living.
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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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The words that matter always stay.
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I want my own books to have their own shelves, you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
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Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
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You leave the phone on beside you as you fall asleep. I sit in my bed and listen to your breathing, until I know you are safe, until I know you no longer need me for the night.
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