"It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness."

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Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

Miguel Syjuco

#These Days Quotes #Kill Me Quotes #Justification Quotes

“Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.”

Source : Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“[W]hen a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds.”

Source : Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.28, Vintage
“Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.”
“When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.”
“I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed”
“Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.”
“You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but Iâ€™ll tell you this, Ned. Thereâ€™s an expression on their face, or a tone in their voice, or a way they walk, that youâ€™ve never ever seen before. Like theyâ€™ve kept it hidden. Until their brother dies. Or their son. I remember those days and they were like these strangers and I wanted to say, Who are you people?”
“You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.”

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