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It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth,you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.

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You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure thi...more

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What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.

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What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies th...more

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There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her...more

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You gave me forever within the numbered days.

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What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows," she says.

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Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I kn...more

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Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago n...more

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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there wi...more

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what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each ...more

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Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up rem...more

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Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

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He’s not that smart.”“She’s right,” Augustus says. “It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.”“Right, it’s ...more

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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.