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Here Goes Nothing Here Goes Nothing by Steve Toltz
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“We were fully selfish beings again, consumed by our own private dramas. In other words—utterly alone.”
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“How ludicrous to want to die without noticing it while never realising that you had lived without noticing it too.”
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“Frankly, nothing said about ghosts ever made sense to me. Why moan? A voice in the dark saying plainly, ‘Hey. Nice to see you,’ would petrify me more. And why are they always stuck in their murder houses like convicted criminals with ankle monitors on house arrest? And”
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“We dehumanised some, over-humanised others, and barely managed to hide our jealousy of actual zombies with their outdoor living and their simple diets.”
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“Who even were we? We were courageous in the abstract, cowardly in the particular, hopeful in spite of all the impalings. The things we said with a straight face! The number of times we confused thinking and feeling! How unsatisfying were our windfalls! Maybe basing a society on “luck of the draw” wasn’t the best approach after all.”
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“That elicited a barrage of Fuck yous and STFU cunts in response before blocking and unfollowing her.”
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“The devil never made any sense to me, conceptually, and still doesn’t; for me his motivations are just too evil to be believable. Personally, I never met a torturer who wasn’t well-meaning.”
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“I thought: why does everyone on the planet earth have to be beautiful? What kind of value system is that? He”
Steve Toltz, Here Goes Nothing