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“For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.”
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“What I'm trying to do is paint a picture of an atypical human being going through all of the existential struggles, but all the while realizing the carnality and small things, because I like minutiae a lot. All the while knowing that it's a forest - knowing that none of it means anything. I think if more people understood that, they would just go ahead and kill themselves like they're gonna do anyway, but do it quickly as opposed to hanging out and using up resources. Don't just sit around criticizing other people and wasting time. I do that, but I'm not really skilled in any other way.”
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“Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?”
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“If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.”
Source : Edna Buchanan (2003). “The Ice Maiden”, Center Point Pub
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“Our treatment of animals, in every department, is deeply and systematically immoral. Becoming a vegetarian is only the most minimal ethical response to the magnitude of the evil.”
Source : Colin McGinn (1997). “Minds and Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas”, p.207, Oxford University Press
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“I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.”
Source : Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.260, Penguin
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“The Asia-Pacific Partnership is a climate suicide pact. It is playing Russian roulette with six bullets in your gun.”
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“I'm fitter than I've ever been, I'm actually very, very healthy and I'm happy.”
