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My big concern was that going on a cruise would be like going to Vegas, except on water instead of in a desert.

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“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?”

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In May 2013, I organized a suicide note creative writing workshop.

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“A nightmare has taken hold of my body. Lunacy has dug its way inside my mind.”

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The film stars Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky – the journalist who went on a roadtrip with the author and chronicled their time together.

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I’m a writer, and I don’t want to be miserable.

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“Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.”

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What he said was, “this is water.” But he should have added: “there’s always more.”

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his…thing…despair, panic, some faceless ghost…is a serial killer. It’s cold and unintelligible to the rest of us, but just because you don’t understand it, it’s no justification that it can’t take you.

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He is the baddest man who ever lived.