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There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet...

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.~Charlie Chaplin

"If you're not living on the edge, then you're taking up to much space!"

“There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.”

~ Michael Nolan

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.~Johnny Rotten

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. ~Joseph Addison

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. ~ Joe Strummer

Well, I stand up next to a mountain And I chop it down with the edge of my hand Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island Might even raise a little sand.~Jimi Hendrix

"So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life." --Paradise Lost

It is not enough to know how to seduce with artistic finesse. One must know what to do 'after' the seduction.

~ Mirages

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.~ Edgar Allan Poe

“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of love;And...

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.~William S. Burroughs

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.~Edward Gorey

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.~Henry Rollins

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. ~Bela Lugosi

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~William Tecumseh Sherman

"It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts."

~ K.T. Jong