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Marina Keegan

(1989–2012) Playwright United States

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Marina Keegan was a playwright from the United States, best known for The Opposite of Loneliness.

Quick Facts About Marina Keegan

Born: October 25, 1989
Died: May 26, 2012
Nationality: United States
Profession: Playwright
Notable works: The Opposite of Loneliness

About Marina Keegan

Marina Evelyn Keegan was an American author, playwright, and journalist. She is best known for her essay "The Opposite of Loneliness," which went viral and was viewed over 1.4 million times in 98 countries after her death in a car crash while traveling home as a passenger just five days after she graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Marina Keegan

“Maybe I’m ignorant and idealistic but I just feel like that can’t possibly be true. I feel like we know that. I…

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“I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness.”

Inspirational

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I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself

Care

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“I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.”

Disappointment

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I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .

Enough

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“We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.”

Possibility

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“I read somewhere that radio waves just keep traveling outward, flying into the universe with eternal vibrations. Sometime before I die I…

Outer space

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Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is…

Beautiful

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The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.

Behinds

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Let's make something happen to this world.

Happens

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“Sometimes I think about what it would be like if there was actual peace. The whole planet would be super sustainable: windmills…

Peace

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What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.

Life

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But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I…

Basements

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So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's…

Bedtime

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What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and…

Atmosphere

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“It's not quite love and it's not quite community; it's just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who…

Community

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“But as I watched him smile back at me and zip his coat, I saw everything in the world build up and…

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We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

Ends

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“And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.”

Beauty

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What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get…

College

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“I miss dreaming forwards," Anna said. "What?" "I dream backwards now. You won't believe how backwards you'll dream someday.”

Dreams

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“At the Unitarian Universalist Christmas pageant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it didn't matter that Mary insisted on keeping her nails painted black or…

Chicken soup

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“Whales feel cohesion, a sense of community, of loyalty. The distress call of a lone whale is enough to prompt its entire…

Empathy

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We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I…

Fantasy

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We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in…

Ifs

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Marina Keegan by topic

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