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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drun...more

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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

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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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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.

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This one's for Alaska Young!

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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us th...more

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You can't just make me different and then leave

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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot...more

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Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as mu...more

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

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You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the ...more

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..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

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He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to...more

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That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals...more

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On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.