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A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
Author
Novelist
Writer
Short Hills
New Jersey
Memories
Looking
Moment
Moments
Souvenir
Souvenirs
Photograph
Memory
Becomes

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Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?
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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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