"I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought."
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"Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize."
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
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"I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?""
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"That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead."
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"Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen."
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"I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason."
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"It can be stressful if I wrote something that I realize doesn't sound right. I can write something at home and be like, "Great. Nailed it." Then I'm like, "No one should have to say those words. That doesn't make any sense." It's a lot of scrambling."
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"I feel a responsibility, as I get older, to be responsible to what I've experienced, to what I've lived and been in a position to witness. I realize now that as a consequence of having lived the life I have, quite apart from the one, as I understand it, lived by most American writers, maybe I now know some things and have some stories to tell that others don't know about or wouldn't be able to tell. Maybe there's an intrinsic value in that lived experience and knowledge, though of course what you do with it is everything."
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"It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize that some of the stories wouldn't have been told if you hadn't gotten to them. There is that sense of capturing a moment that was just about to go over the horizon."
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"I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for."
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"I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make."
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"And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom"
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"Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?"
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"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."
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"we live our fate before we realize exactly what it is."
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"Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!""
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"The moderns do not realize modernity."
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"Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present."
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"Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived."
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