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- And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my…
- The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so…
- Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.
- I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.
- Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
- Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and…
- When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within…
- Even though I wanted to experience all these things I was interested in, I couldn't get them. So I had to think critically and culturally…
- Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
- But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind…
- The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in…
- Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails…
- What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very…
- We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we…
- I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.
- Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real.…
- The message of "The Winner Takes It All" is straightforward: It argues that the concept of relationships ending on mutual terms is an emotional fallacy.…
- We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.
- We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much…
- We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
- When given the choice, we’d all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we’ll all be sad later.
- Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know…
- Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit…
- We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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