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Apparently Twitter has an update limit
and I’ve reached it. So I’ve gotta stop with the live feed on Twitter for a little while. I’ll be back later. I promise!
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A body in motion. A body at rest. Forces coming together - CRASH! - in an instant. Engery spent, energy exchanged, and energy conserved. Jutting elbows, bared teeth. Elastic arms, slack mouths. To every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. This woman and this man, a living demonstration of Newton’s Third Law.
— Chapter four, Perfect Fifths
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When Jessica Darling blindly collides into Marcus Flutie on this crisp, unclouded January morning, she can’t remember the last time she had imagined where she would be - and who he would be - at the moment of their inevitable collision.
For him, however, it’s a very different story.
— Chapter one, Perfect Fifths
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In our artificial civilzation many young people at twenty-five aer still on the threshold of activity. As one looks back then, over eight or nine years, one sees a panorama of seemingly formidable length. So many crises, so many startling surprises, so many vivid joys and harrowing humiliations and disappointments, that one feels startlingly old; one wonders if one will ever feel so old again.
— Youth and life, Randolph S. Bourne
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Even now, when I have come so far, I wonder where you are….
-Even Now, Barry Manilow