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The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form.
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.
Just because it’s anal intercourse doesn’t mean it’s not love.”
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them.
Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize.
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.
“There isn’t any real you in you,” she says. “Even your physical body, all your cells will be replaced within eight years.”
She says, “Don’t do what you want.” She says, “Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to want.” It’s the opposite of following your bliss. Brandy tells me, “Do the things that scare you the most.”
Sunlight comes down on us through clean air. Bears and mountains are within walking distance.
It’s stupid and destructive, and anybody you ask will tell you I’m wrong. That’s why I have to go through with it.”
“Our real discoveries come from chaos,”
A sexual reassignment surgery is a miracle for some people, but if you don’t want one, it’s the ultimate form of self-mutilation.
the only vagina worth having is the kind you buy yourself.”
Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I’ll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
But what I hate most is how she’s just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.
Go figure, but Texans seem to be a lot more comfortable around disastrous house fires than they are around anal sex.
