"Have you ever had one of those moments……" — David Rakoff
"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 little fanfare, those moments. They're not particularly photogenic. There's no breach in the clouds to reveal the shining city on a hill. No folk dancing children outside your bus, no production values to speak of- just a glimpse of such quotidian, incontrovertible truth that after the initial shock at the supreme weirdness of it all, a kind of calm sets in. So this is to be my life."
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40 Quotes by David Rakoff
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I have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.
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I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously…
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Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it
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