David Rakoff Quotes

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• Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day…
• Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
• But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would…
• I had a tumor. But it was great.
• You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random.…
• We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.
• Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.
• If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way…
• Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They come so rarely and with…
• I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.
• I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.
• Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
• Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it
• I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the…
• I do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City…
• Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.
• New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having…
• I am going to the bad place, as is my wont.
• 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,…
• Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is…

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