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being unable to control anger is as much a weakness as an inability to control fear.
“This is the sort of place that dulls our edge. Makes us soft. Gives us too much time to worry.”
I have found that my brain works best when I give my body a mindless physical task that can be accomplished entirely on autopilot, in an environment where I don’t have to pay much attention to my surroundings or get bombarded by external stimuli.
“We qualify with sidearms once a year. Fifty rounds. I don’t know why they even bother. It’s not like a Lanky would even feel those.” “Last-ditch defiance. It’s basically a magazine full of fuck-yous,”
on the cosmic timescale, our existences are a blip in the collective consciousness of the universe
