"I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better"
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"The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life."
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"And he paddled away in his douche canoe."
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"You can't let facts get in the way of the truth."
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"Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."
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"Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later."
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"I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love."
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"I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all."
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"I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today."
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"The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies."
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"That was one thing you found out when you were stoned, or wasted, or feverish: that the world was always turning and that only a healthy mind could block out the sickening whirl of it."
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"Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask."
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"I am; I was. I want to be."
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"Love requires Context."
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"The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way."
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"When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier."
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"Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed."
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"Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up."
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"You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better."
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"The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it."
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