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from a friend that although ninty percent of the city was shut down yesterday due to Jesus escaping from his cave and all, brothels were allowed to be open. On like the holiest day in chrisendom you can still enagage in the oldest profession. I now like this left-leaning liberal government a little more for giving those of us who don’t buy into the myth and are desprate like my mate something to do on the holiest day.

“What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

“Let it be said that one of the first symptoms of psychosis is that the person feels perhaps he is becoming psychotic. It is another Chinese fingertrap. You cannot think about it without becoming part of it.”

1) Those who agree with you are insane.
2) Those who do not agree with you are in power.

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it it doesn’t go away.”
--Philip K. Dick

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re just learning this fact,” Tyler said. “So don’t fuck with us.”

“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit,” Tyler said. “They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”

“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”

“To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”

“…masochism is a valuable job skill.”

“The answer is there is no answer.”

“Every addiction, she said, was just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood.”

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”
Chuck Palahnuik

“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”
--Alan Moore, Watchmen

Random girl.

The air was full of spite and hate,
till you walk into the room,
I am not a shallow man,
But your lips, they make me swoon.

Your boyfriend doesn’t like me,
I’m sure your mother would agree,
but if you let steal a one kiss,
forever happy will I’ll be.