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You don’t understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

Adam Duritz

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
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Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that’s part of my mental illness, social anxiety.
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It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
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When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
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Closeness to other people is really hard, but it’s also a shame because it’s all you want too. But it doesn’t always work.
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There’s people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
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My life isn’t necessarily more important than anyone else’s: I’m just better in talking about it.
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If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.
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There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.
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A lot of life is about how you feel relating to dealing with this person or that person
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You aren’t really writing about what you did; you’re writing about how you feel.
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It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.
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I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.
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People really need to show up early to hear Hollis Brown. They are just an unbelievable live band.
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We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.
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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It’s really, like, physically painful, and it’s a brand of crazy I don’t appreciate having.
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