The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.


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She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...
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Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...
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Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow peop...
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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber th...
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He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
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My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...
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One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they'r...
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the...
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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
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Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
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With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
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The things you own end up owning you.
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
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We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
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We just had a near-life experience!
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This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
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Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
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Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
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Real discoveries come from chaos.
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The future is just wasted on some people.
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You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
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If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
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There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
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Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
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You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
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I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
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