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David Levithan
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 7
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Short Hills
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Love me less, but love me for a long time
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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. And maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love with her. But I don't think that's it. I think I would have continued along, oblivious, if I hadn't happened to meet her.
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She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
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For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
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I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.
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Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.
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Here, she said. This is for you. I didn't really get you anything, I sputtered. I mean, I didn't know that you were going to be here, and-- Don't worry. It's your embarrassment at not having the thought that counts.
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Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
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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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As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we’re really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.
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When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.
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What i want is for what i want to actually matter.
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It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
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You can't deny that there's something between us. No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.
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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
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It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.
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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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What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.
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I think they have compatible silences.
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