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Anyway, I forgot all about him once I graduated. So quickly and easily, it was weird. What was it about him that had made the seventeen-year-old me fa...more

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I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

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Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things yo...more

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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it ...more

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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

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If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.