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“It is an inside joke of history that all its most exciting adventures inevitably end their careers as homework. Beheadings, rebellions, thousand-year wars, incest on the royal throne, electricity, art, opera, dogs in outer space.”

School Education History Homework

Book:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

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“Josh Funk and Hunter Fraser: we haven't been in touch in years, but you made me feel like the funniest kid in the world. I would stay up late on school nights to write things to try to make you laugh the next day in class, and you inspired the one piece of advice on writing that I've ever felt qualified to give: write for the kid sitting next to you.”

Writing Humor School Class Class Clown

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“What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.”

Dating Exhaustion Dates Long Race To Nowhere No Medal Relatively Impressive Relatively Interesting

Book:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

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“We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.”

Memories Nostalgia Love Hurts

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“We talked for four hours. I don't remember most of it, but often a little moment in an unrelated conversation or alone on the street will trigger a memory of it that I didn't know I had. So I know it's all there somewhere.”

Memories Nostalgia Love Hurts

Book:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

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“But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.”

Books Libraries Ala

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“You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.”

Infinite Finite Sophia Million Billion Million Billion So Finite So So Finite

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“I know this sounds crazy to say after one encounter but I kind of fell for you pretty hard & it has been forever since I've connected to anyone like this & my heart is kind of broken in a million pieces.”

Love Missed Connections

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“I opened up a bit and explained that I have a type I'm drawn to naturally, but that I've found that the women I've ended up loving the most have never been what I've thought of as my type, maybe because part of love is being helpless, being out of control of your own emotions.”

Love Type Emotions Helpless Loving Helplessness Out Of Control

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“He kissed her for an eternity, which was fine, because heaven had eternities to burn. Then he kissed her for another.”

Heaven Kissing Eternity Lynn Tim Eternities

Book:One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

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