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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie Ma...more

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The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

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I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a re...more

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In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no lev...more

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He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future k...more

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Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keep...more

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I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I ...more

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The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the...more

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Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years ...more

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But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About t...more

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I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.

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.. the smell of canals and cigarette smoke, all the people sitting outside the cafés drinking beer, saying their r's and g's in a way I'd never learn....more