Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia … You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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— Alaska from “Looking for Alaska” (via nerdfighter007)
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    Then the future catches you and you have no idea how to deal with it.
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    This is my favorite quote. Just of all time. I’ve seen it before, in many other places, but where Green places the quote...
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