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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Change
Wanting
Step
Taking
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—
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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.
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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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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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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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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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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 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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