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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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me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.
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Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
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She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.
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the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
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I want to talk to you and be random with you and be ridiculous with you.
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You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind. Be thankful for that. You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead. Be thankful for that, too.
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What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing
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It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.
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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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Let me hold on to this the way it was, before I knew anything else.
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The boy I loved didn't know I existed. Then again, he was obsessed with Camus, so he didn't know if any of us existed.
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Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.
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I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.
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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.
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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 asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything I was planning on giving you something.
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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
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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 never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.
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