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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Matters
However
Next
Matter

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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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I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
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Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
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I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.
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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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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
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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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I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.
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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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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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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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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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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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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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Music? Music is life! It’s physical emotion - you can touch it! It’s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that it’s boring? You don’t have time for it?
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