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1 " There must have been a time, before Internet porn, when there wasn’t a script. Nowadays, everybody knows exactly how sex is supposed to go. "
― Paul Russell , Immaculate Blue
2 " And Chris remembers: what they used to talk about was desire. Impossible, longing dreams. Delirious, aching confusion. That was the vital element they lived off … because it was the one thing that mattered. Not things, or achievements, or politics, or fracking or anything else: just sweet naked blameless unending desire. "
3 " The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility. "
4 " Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that’s disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world. "
5 " Then it comes to him—how you can’t return to a place you’ve never been to, can’t recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever. "
6 " This whole fucking country’s got it great and doesn’t even know it. Why? Because the price for having it so great gets paid somewhere else, by somebody else, where you don’t have to see it. Out of sight, out of mind. That’s the fucking key to the whole shit system. Stay blind, stay deaf. "
7 " But it’s not real life. It’s just America. "
8 " We should all be merely animals. As humans, there are miseries nothing can put us out of. "
9 " Homo sapiens, which as far as I can tell is only another way of saying weaponised chimpanzees who are hellbent on tearing their cage apart without realising it’s not a cage, it’s their fucking life support they’re shredding. "
10 " Is that racist – I mean, to be attracted to a type? Probably, but what you want is what you want, right? Your dick doesn’t know fuck about political correctness, even if the rest of you is pretty well-versed. "
11 " If you’re going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you’re going to be an outcast. It’s not for the faint of heart, it’s not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit. "
12 " Romance always involved a bit of deceit. "
13 " God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is ‘no’. "
14 " Sometimes what you depend on is other people being even more wacked than you are. "
15 " Getting drunk or high every night. Being hungover every morning. You run out of options at a certain point. You come to understand why everybody else is living the boring life. And it doesn’t look so boring anymore. "
16 " God gave us orifices, God gave us wounds. "
