“ If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. ”
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“ When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didn’t at all expect, especially from our devoutly Catholic mother: they had both left instructions that their bodies be donated to science. We were bewildered and we were pissed. They wanted their cadavers to be used by medical students, they wanted their flesh to be cut into and their cancerous organs examined. We were breathless. They wanted no elaborate funerals, no expense incurred for such stuff – they hated wasting money or time on ceremony, on appearances. When they died there was little left – the house, the cars. And their bodies, and they gave those away. To offer them to strangers was disgusting, wrong, embarrassing. And selfish to us, their children, who would have to live with the thought of their cold weight sinking on silver tables, surrounded by students chewing gum and making jokes about the location of freckles. But then again: Nothing can be preserved. It’s all on the way out, from the second it appears, and whatever you have always has one eye on the exit, and so screw it. As hideous and uncouth as it is, we have to give it all away, our bodies, our secrets, our money, everything we know: All must be given away, given away every day, because to be human means: 1. To be good 2. To save nothing ”
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“ He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? ”
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“ You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me. ”
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“ I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway. ”
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“ You better [start writing] now because you know how to write, and you have fingers, and you have this one life, and during this one life, you should put your words down, and make your voice heard, and then let others hear your voice. And the only way any of that’s going to happen is if you actually do it. People can’t read the thoughts in your head. They can only read the thoughts you put down, carefully and with great love, on the page. So you have to do it, goddamnit. ”
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“ Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ”
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“ How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting. ”
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“ Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned ”
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“ Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ”
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“ Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. ”
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“ Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage - oop! - yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel. And what do we do with fossil fuel? Why, we dump it into a bunker and burn it, of course… ”
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“ Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River in the east central Columbia, with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. ”
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“ Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River in the east central Columbia, with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. ”
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“ Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River in the east central Columbia, with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. ”
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“ Our town was rigid in many ways, in terms of the uniformity of things, the colors of skin, the makes of cars, the lushness of the lawns, but on top of that it was sort of a blank canvas so-and again, I guess this is true of any child-I was ready to quickly accept the sudden and total substitutions of all I knew to be true. ”
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“ Our town was rigid in many ways, in terms of the uniformity of things, the colors of skin, the makes of cars, the lushness of the lawns, but on top of that it was sort of a blank canvas so-and again, I guess this is true of any child-I was ready to quickly accept the sudden and total substitutions of all I knew to be true. ”
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“ Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool tannin-tinted Guaviare River in the east central Columbia, with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. ”
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“ Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light. ”
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“ Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage - oop! - yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel. And what do we do with fossil fuel? Why, we dump it into a bunker and burn it, of course… ”
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