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You don't believe magic is possible in lives lived within traditional boundaries.
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Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
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Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?
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The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.
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Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
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The heart of a man is like deep water.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
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You still don't know what you do well.
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Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.
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Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask.
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'You're never too old to dance, Dad...and you're never too old to dream.''That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?'
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As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.
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You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.
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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.
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You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.
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