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

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Letters
Memory
Communication
Paper
Memories
Writing

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Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.
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In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
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She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
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Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.
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It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.
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In my mind I am eloquent I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
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I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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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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We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
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It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.
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You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.
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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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