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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
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It’s funny how you never think about the women you’ve had. It’s always the ones who get away that you can’t forget.
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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
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Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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I try to forget about the expectation that’s out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I’m not trying to please them. I’ve spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.
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I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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I think in a way, you’re doomed, once you can envision something. You’re sort of doomed to make it happen. I’ve found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that’s usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don’t any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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I have a lot of money.
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I think, in a way, I invented the term ’fight club’ and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I’ve been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
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Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.