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If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
Little
Obituaries
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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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Maybe there's a way to keep us in this moment. Not the sad part. But the coming together part.
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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.
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Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.
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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
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That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.
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When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely over there. At least to me. But whenever I would tell you that, you'd say I'm fine. I just slip out of it, you know? And I'd say I'll catch you, and you would say, It's not the kind of slipping you can catch.
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But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing. Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.
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How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them.
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Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.
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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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Let’s make plans,” I ventured. And Sofia smiled and said, “No, let’s leave it to chance.
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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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We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.
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I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.
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Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.
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If you stare at the center of the universe, there is coldness there. A blankness. Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.
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I think they have compatible silences.
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When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.
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