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Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Science Fiction Writer
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Maryland
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I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.
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She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get ready for the bal.” “It’s Christmas, Dashiel. Can’t you give that atitude a rest?” “Merry Christmas, Dad. And thanks for the presents.” “What presents?” “I’m sorry—those were all from Mom, weren’t they?
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Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.
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One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
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There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.
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Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.
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I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.
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Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar
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The reward is in the risk.
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I could become a nun even if I am a non-believer. I'll learn to fake it like Nick did with me. I will minister the gospel of compassion and kindness and please, always use a condom, from famine-stricken nations to war-torn dead zones. It's possible I might become a nun who kisses other nuns.
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I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.
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The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.
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When in doubt, ingest carbs.
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In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.
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He's not my step brother technically, so I think it's okay that I kissed him once.
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I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.
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