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- Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they…
- Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.
- These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer…
- I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive…
- I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.
- It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.
- I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please…
- I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label.…
- People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided…
- Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call…
- The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out…
- You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
- The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
- Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you…
- Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see…
- There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old…
- Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX…
- Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
- Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it…
- We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
- Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that…
- Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia…
- Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they…
- When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
- Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much…
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