"I have managed to establish an identity that……" — David Rakoff
"I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky."
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40 Quotes by David Rakoff
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Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that…
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Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
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But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming,…
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I had a tumor. But it was great.
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You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this…
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We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.
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Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am…
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If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is…
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Have you ever had one of those moments when you know that you're being visited by your own future? They…
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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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Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.
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Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it
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