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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Memory
Communication
Paper
Memories
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I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.
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Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.
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But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
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The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.
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I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming the scraps of beauty make it worse.
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.
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We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.
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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.
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I wince at her use of the word human. I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.
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