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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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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Rules
Ones
Making
Change
Whenever

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You might say that death has relaxed me.
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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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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M
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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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You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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Just... ate, M says, frowning at me a little. Two days...ago. I grab my stomach again. Feel empty. Feel... dead. He nods. Marr...iage.
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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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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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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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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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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