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I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of ...more

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I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn't sound dumb, and I hate...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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...you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly presen...more

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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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I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one da...more

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I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being ...more

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Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.