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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Sep 18, 2025
You can say anything if enough people will listen.
The future is just wasted on some people.
Find good in what the world says is evil.
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.
When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
You have to jump into disaster with both feet.
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.
Our real discoveries come from chaos.
Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Make me into anything, but just love me.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
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