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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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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
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Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
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It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.
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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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I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.
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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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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 want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
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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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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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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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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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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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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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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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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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What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.
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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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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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