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1 " He was phrasing that exactly the way those activists did when they stood outside of Vons with their clipboards and asked , as you were rushing into the store , “Do you have time for the environment ? ” So obviously , you couldn’t say no , because then you looked like an asshole who didn’t have time for the environment . You only had time to buy donuts and a fifth of Jack , and the environment could go fuck itself . Obviously , that’s what you meant . "
― Stacey E. Bryan , Day for Night
2 " Police officers were always flabbergasted when their authority wasn’t immediately recognized and dutifully acquiesced to . It was called “ contempt of cop , ” and you were up shit creek if they thought you were expressing it in any way whatsoever . "
3 " It was fairly miraculous that something serious hadn’t happened like herpes , AIDS , flipping over in my car seventeen times on Interstate 10 before it sailed off the side and came to a stop on top of a supermarket roof . My head somersaulting through the air , sliced off clean by the Ralph’s sign . My family would still demand an open casket at the funeral , so the mortician would simply tie a pretty scarf around the place where they had quickly sewn my head back on to my body . None of that had happened . Thank God . "
4 " It was beautiful and sunny outside , belying the day’s ludicrous events . I was thinking about cigarettes for the first time in ten years while shock and denial held hands and started making out . "
5 " You know,' Cola said , ' whatever happened to you … maybe it’s good to have the nature of reality questioned now and again , don’t you think ? "
6 " Think The Brady Bunch . The episode where they hung out with the ethnic friend . Remember that ? No ? That’s because there was no such episode . "
