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I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

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For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

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I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

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Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

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I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

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It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

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You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

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He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

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If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

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The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

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Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on.

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The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

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One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

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I've committed to nothing... and that's just suicide... by tiny, tiny increments.

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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

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Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.

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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

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He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

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One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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What if a sense of humour is like hair — something a lot of man lose as they get older?

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My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

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The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

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The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

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