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- Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about…
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect,…
- If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you…
- The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
- Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all…
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
- Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
- The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the…
- ...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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