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“You passed. But have you considered the word "la"?”
Jeremy Denk, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
tags: humor

Chuck Klosterman
“The matter forever, you have to matter to those who don't care.”
Chuck Klosterman

Paul Kalanithi
“Life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi
“Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present. Money, status, all the vanities the preacher of Ecclesiastes described, hold so little interest: a chasing after wind, indeed.”
Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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