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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Choose
Maybe
Anything
Enough
Really

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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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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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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 might say that death has relaxed me.
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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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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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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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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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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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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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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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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.
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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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It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.
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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 want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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