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Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like “What Sarah Said”: I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.

— Ben Gibbard

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Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...

If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Plans (2005)

You touch her skin
And then you think
That she is beautiful
But she don't mean a thing to me

Transatlanticism (2003)

And it's strange
They are basically the same
So i don't ask names anymore

Transatlanticism (2003)

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