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Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

~David Rakoff

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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.

~David Rakoff

Topics: About Always Because Fact Failing Good Good Memory Had Lately Me Memory Only Protective Really Terribly The Only Thing Thing

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I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

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Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.

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Topics: Among Before Bracelet Diagnosis Goes Most Once Patient Plastic Reason Those Times Weeks You

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There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

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Topics: Being More Nothing Optimism Optimistic Particularly Pessimism Pessimistic Than Thinking Wrong

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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Also Anxious Appreciate Darker Fellow Genuinely Little More Much News Perhaps Rosy Scenario See Straight Tend Than World

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I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

~David Rakoff

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I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy.

~David Rakoff

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Here's the thing: I'm not beautiful. I mean, I'm a perfectly normal-looking Jewish guy. My face has never been my fortune, nor has my body... physical beauty has never been part of my equation. It's just not on my shopping list.

~David Rakoff

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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Also Anxious Appreciate Darker Fellow Genuinely Honesty Little More Much News Perhaps Rosy Scenario See Straight Tend Than World

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: November 27th, 1964

Died: August 9th, 2012

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