The Original Face Quotes

“Some weeks I didn’t floss because if I couldn’t hurt myself anymore, what did I even have left.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“After growing tired of walking to work every day, I gave up and purchased a bus pass for the first time in two years. My version of “wealth” was being able to take public transport every day like a rich person.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“An ad on Facebook kept asking me if I was “tough enough,” but it never felt like I was.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“Logging into Facebook in the morning, I felt like some sort of indentured servant. “O Lord Facebook, I have come to pay tribute,” I thought.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“What is art except being the real estate agent of your own neuroses.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“When I am dead, take my ashes and make a computer with them.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“I had a dream in which I clicked on a hyperlink and it led me directly into another brain.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“Alternate universe in which the 1995 movie Waterworld wasn’t a box office flop, causing instant, worldwide acceptance of its important message about the dangers of global warming.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“Convincing myself I was a “good artist” while also knowing how pointless it was to be one.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“I spent my first two weeks in Toronto massively alone. I couldn’t tell if I had forgotten how to meet people, or if this was a skill I had simply never acquired in the first place. Being inside my head for several days in a row felt like a kind of death, like I was progressively receding into my imagination, becoming a voice inside my own head. I was less a person, and more like the vague idea of a person, a piece of paper with an inscription on it that said, “IOU: One person.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face

“One of the Ten Commandments should have been, “Avoid taking yourself seriously.”
― Guillaume Morissette, The Original Face