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21 " The future is just wasted on some people. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
22 " When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. "
23 " Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you. "
24 " We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue. "
25 " And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. "
26 " When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. "
27 " Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. "
28 " What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all? "
29 " I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. "
30 " Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. "
31 " The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. "
32 " The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. "
33 " You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself. "
34 " The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. "
35 " You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. "
36 " The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill "
37 " You young people, you who think you invented fun and drugs, fuck you "
38 " Give me lust, baby.Flash.Give me malice.Flash.Give me detached existentialist ennui.Flash.Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.Flash. "
39 " Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. "
40 " Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. "