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> [“I have learned, though, that memories aren’t things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They’re just colors...that shade all the new things you feel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/i-have-learned-though-that-memories-aren-t-things-that-have-to-pile/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

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## More by Ben Monopoli

> [“Young people think they are invincible, that nothing bad will ever happen to them, and then something changes: they fall in love. And the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/young-people-think-they-are-invincible-that-nothing-bad-will-ever/)

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> [“It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/it-s-not-about-who-you-sleep-with-or-whether-you-know-about-sports-or/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

> [“The place that haunts us and fuels us even as we wonder whether it truly exists.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/the-place-that-haunts-us-and-fuels-us-even-as-we-wonder-whether-it/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

> [“like a book with nothing on its pages but the promise of an amazing sequel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/like-a-book-with-nothing-on-its-pages-but-the-promise-of-an-amazing/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

> [“I knew from the first moment I saw him that I’d never turn down anything this guy asked of me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/i-knew-from-the-first-moment-i-saw-him-that-i-d-never-turn-down/)

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> [“I was bi and my heart was off-limits to no one, at least not for any reason like what they had between their legs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/i-was-bi-and-my-heart-was-off-limits-to-no-one-at-least-not-for-any/)

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> [“The bathroom door opened and Griff emerged in a cloud of steam, the grand entrance of every B-movie alien I’d ever seen. Maybe this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/the-bathroom-door-opened-and-griff-emerged-in-a-cloud-of-steam-the/)

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> [“I have learned, though, that memories aren’t things that have to pile up and overwhelm you. They’re just colors...that shade all the new things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/i-have-learned-though-that-memories-aren-t-things-that-have-to-pile/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

> [“Life’s not a porno.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/life-s-not-a-porno/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

> [“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/and-that-s-the-best-we-can-hope-for-from-art-you-know-that-it-changes/)

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> [“Never apologise for being the good guy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/never-apologise-for-being-the-good-guy/)

[Ben Monopoli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-monopoli/)

> [“Maybe I’ll take you to a lighthouse and kiss you like in that book about the cranberries everyone has to read in high school.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/maybe-i-ll-take-you-to-a-lighthouse-and-kiss-you-like-in-that-book/)

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> [“I’ve always loved this, what silly people disregard as humping but what aficionados call frottage – this feeling a guy over every inch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/i-ve-always-loved-this-what-silly-people-disregard-as-humping-but/)

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> [“Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/fiction-is-true-it-doesn-t-have-to-factual-to-be-true/)

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> [“One perk of living alone is there’s no one to judge me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-monopoli/one-perk-of-living-alone-is-there-s-no-one-to-judge-me/)

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