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21 " If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours. "
― Marilyn Manson , The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
22 " I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way. "
23 " This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face. "
24 " This question is posed to mayself, am I a man who thinks he's an angel? Or an angel who thinks he's a man? "
25 " There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills. "
26 " As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma. "
27 " The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects of shaping our personalities and humanity. "
28 " [...] no one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to live the lies that they had created for themselves. Only in private could they really be the demons, hypocrites and sinners they really were, and woe betide anyone who caught them at their game, because the only thing worse than a lie is a lie exposed. "
29 " I spent hours flipping through the stations, watching Pat Robertson preach about society’s evils and then ask people to call him with their credit card number. "
30 " Occasionally, something will happen that will change your opinion of someone irrevocably, that will shatter the ideal you’ve built up around a person and force you to see them for the fallible and human creature they really are. "
31 " everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other. "
32 " The apocalypse doesn’t have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you believe you’re the center of your own universe and you want to see the universe destroyed, it only takes one bullet. "
33 " [...] morals are worn as a badge to make you look good and [...] it's so much easier to talk about your beliefs than to live up to them "
34 " I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong. "
35 " In the Bible, the word antichrist is only used as a description of people who don’t believe in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. He is not described as one satanic entity—as the beast of Revelation which many people believe—but as a person, any person, who deviates from the Christian orthodoxy. But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity metamorphosed antichrists into a single Antichrist, an apocalyptic villain and Christian bogeyman used to scare people much as Santa Claus is used to regulate children’s behavior. "
36 " People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don’t want to tell but they want everyone to know. "
37 " I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I’m thinking about doing something illegal. "
38 " [...] extremes—whether good or bad—don't fit into society's definition of normality "
39 " hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much "
40 " I needed to stop being victimized by my own weaknesses and insecurities about other people, "