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If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

~David Rakoff

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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

~David Rakoff

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I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.

~David Rakoff

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I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

~David Rakoff

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Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.

~David Rakoff

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When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

~David Rakoff

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I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.

~David Rakoff

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Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.

~David Rakoff

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I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

~David Rakoff

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Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch when I was terrified that it would suck, so I didn't write. I think that marks a lot of people, a real terror at being bad at something, and unfortunately, you are always bad before you can get a little better.

~David Rakoff

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: November 27th, 1964

Died: August 9th, 2012

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