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They should let some people into the library by prescription only
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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I love being with people. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. And the religion's leaders model a way of being. For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night – as does the narrator in Fight Club. Here's Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers. That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public.
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Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
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We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
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And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
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If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
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Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
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Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.
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A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
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In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
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People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.
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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
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Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
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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.
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
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Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
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In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.
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Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard Libby
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February 21, 1962
(age 62)
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