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“He knew what he was experiencing was a basic error in programming, and he wished he could open up his brain and delete the bad code. Unfortunately, the human brain is every bit as closed a system as a Mac.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: computer-programming, human-brain

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“All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was.”
― Joan Didion, Why I Write

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“Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

tags: survival

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“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

tags: i-love-you, love, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, say-i-love-you, tell-them-that-you-love-them

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“It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after.”
― Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

tags: death, goodbyes, grief, loss, love

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