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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.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Learning
Live
Think
Thinking
Undamaged
Damage
Otherwise
Okay

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All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.
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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
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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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Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.
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Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together
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What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?
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I had a sense then of how if we truly understood how many of the unimportant things we do will end up outliving us, we'd never be able to go on.
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