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1 " Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. "
― Douglas Coupland , Shampoo Planet
2 " At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week. "
3 " In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves. "
4 " I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does. "
5 " The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience. "
6 " I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it. "
7 " These were citizens who, never having bothered to awaken to the technological and psychic changes in their world, hadn't bothered to defend themselves, hadn't bothered to build walls or plan or counterattacks or build weapons-- asleep inside their collective dream, thinking for all the world that the unthinkable would never happen. Thinking they were safe. "
8 " Всё, что возникает за счёт денег, всегда возникает вспышкообразно. "
9 " I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. "
10 " I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter "
11 " I think there is a Paris inside us all. "
12 " LET'S JUST HOPE WE ACCIDENTALLY BUILD GOD. "
13 " You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing. "
14 " This is not ambition. This is desperation. "
15 " -a feeling at once destructive, romantic, and grand-like falling into a swimming pool dressed in a tuxedo. "
16 " Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the water, an, if we are lucky, at day's end we will have netted one-- maybe two-- small fish. Occasionally we will net a seahorse or sometimes a shark-- or a life preserver or an iceberg, or a monster. And in our dreams at night we assess our Catch of the Day-- the treasures of this long, slow process of accumulation... "
17 " You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. "
18 " It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are? Do we understand the factors that make us do the things we do? "
19 " Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable. "
20 " Life always wins. "
