I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism. Dan Chaon
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  1. Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
  2. You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.
  3. He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost...
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