If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“The hiking boots the outdoor adventure magazine sent me to buy - large, ungainly potato like things that I have been trying to break… — david rakoff Copy Share
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“We are disclosing animals, wired for unburdening. It's what we do as a species. When I am being told, I listen, mindful of the… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“The central drama of my life is about being a fraud, alas. That's a complete lie, really; the central drama of my life is… — David Rakoff Copy Share
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and… — David Rakoff Copy Share
I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“It was nice to find out, then, that if one is characterologically incapable of not being a total fuckface, science has not shown you… — David Rakoff Copy Share
People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“One day reach idealization; after all, it's the journey, not the destination.” — David Rakoff Copy Share
“It was turning out to be an anxious Christmas season. Too many were the early mornings spent sitting at the table, insomniac in the… — David Rakoff Copy Share
“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no match for… — David Rakoff Copy Share
Unfortunately, there's no greater rhyme or reason as to why it would be me. And since there is no answer as to why me,… — David Rakoff Copy Share
