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David Levithan

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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
New Jersey
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But I want to feel like life matters. I had something real with you, but then the realness scared me. I decided to go for other things instead.
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Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.
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I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.
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It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.
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...he hopes that maybe it'll make people a little less scared of two boys kissing than they were before, and a little more welcoming to the idea that all people are, in fact, born equal, no matter who they kiss or screw, no matter what dreams they have or love they give.
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I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.
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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.
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If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.
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I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
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I don't want to fall. All I want to do is stand on solid ground.
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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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Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.
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We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.
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Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
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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 text tiny a minute later. MADE NEW GAY FRIEND. And he texts back PROGRESS!!!
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Told her she was beautiful. Didn't give up when she didn't believe me.
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placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.
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No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.
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Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.
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