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Marina Keegan


Born
in Boston, MA, The United States
October 25, 1989

Died
May 26, 2012

Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry


Marina Evelyn Keegan was an American author, playwright, journalist, actress and poet. She is best known for her essay ‘The Opposite of Loneliness’, which went viral and was viewed over 1.4 million times in ninety-eight different countries after her death in a car crash just five days after she graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.

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Average rating: 3.85 · 51,770 ratings · 4,944 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors
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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.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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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 life.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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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.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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