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21 " and she saw another bit of ink, one she didn’t recognize: a sword and a hammer encircled by a snake. She didn’t know what it meant, exactly, but it was probably more Nazi white-guy shit, because it was always Nazi white-guy shit. "
― Chuck Wendig , Wanderers
22 " Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. "
23 " Even if this thing takes down one percent of the global population—that’s seventy million people. "
24 " Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. "
25 " Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind. "
26 " the outside air was so hot and so humid it felt like you were the meat in a sandwich whose bread was the Devil’s moist thighs "
27 " Talking about coal was never about coal, though: It was always code for making promises to blue-collar America about their blue-collar ways of life.) "
28 " I can't choose any one thing. Why do I have to live only one life and be resigned to doing one thing? "
29 " Some people are just trash, and they find other trash and start to form a landfill. The internet makes it easier. "
30 " Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. —Terence McKenna "
31 " He was just another user claiming the mantle of a “Good Christian.” Like so many of the world’s bullies and abusers, choosing to find shelter in the faith—using their religiosity as both shield and sword.) "
32 " Honestly, you ask me, I think it’s aliens,” she said, fast putting an end to her moment as the voice of sanity. "
33 " Nothing except the desire between them, the ground below them, the night above. "
34 " Humankind was a disease.The earth was the body.Climate change was the fever. "
35 " Everything else is coming apart, but we are going to do the opposite. We are going to come together. "
36 " I’m sick!” he bellowed, his voice cracking like a frozen lake underfoot. "
37 " We’ll find a way forward. On this. I know we’ve hit a wall. It’s not Trypanosoma, it’s not flu, it’s not anything. I trust this team. We’ll find a breakthrough very soon, Doctor Ray.” They had no idea how true that was. "
38 " You are in love with yourself, aren’t you?” He hmphed. “Someone has to be. "
39 " what was going on here went well beyond weird and into the stuff of a Stephen King novel. "
40 " They went to therapy. It was horrible. Each session felt like pulling teeth with a pair of clumsy pliers—and going in rectally, instead of orally. "