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I mean, there's doomed. There's screwed. And there's monsoons-in-Hell fucked. And we're at fucked o'clock.
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The thing you have to understand about Lucifer is that he hardly ever talks, and when he does, it's never much more than a whisper. When half the universe is hanging on to your every word, you don't have to shout.
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I've got plenty on my plate. Till then, Ishii can piss his sorrows in a teapot and brew himself a hot cup of fuck off.
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Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it out loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.
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I should sit down and make a list of everything I missed while I was gone. If you can't smoke in bars anymore, what other atrocities has the world committed?
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So, you're the angel of Death?" The angel shook his head, a little embarrassed. "I don't have that honor. In Heaven, I'm the celestial who bears the great golden quills, the silver Chroma, the holy vellums upon which the Lord God inscribes the fate of the universe." Tiras's eyes narrowed. "You're in charge of office supplies. You're the angel of office supplies." The"
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IT'S WEIRD starting over from zero. It changes the scale of your ambitions. Instead of fantasizing about what kind of mansion you'll buy when you win the lottery, you ask yourself,
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You have to burn beliefs when they become convenient lies solely for the purpose of gaining and holding power.
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You're a philosopher." "No. Just drunk." --
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Don't be stupid. Of course I'll help you. We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.
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How do you explain to someone that you understand their fear, then convince them that it's going to be all right? In my experience, the more you talk about what scares them, the worse it gets. There's not much to do but ride out the fear with them and try to keep them away from liquor and razor blades.
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I hate this place. You can't get a cup of coffee unless it has a backstory and a pedigree so the cafe can charge you as much for the cup as a normal human pays for dinner. Women drive by in cute little sports cars with more power under the hood than a Saturn V, but the speedometer will never top twenty because then they might not be seen and admired. Men window-shop in silk jackets made by indentured servants in countries they've never hear..
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Make her stop. I'm hungover and she has a robot. It's not fair." "Life is fair only in the grave and in the bedroom. This, you will notice, is neither."
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My back feels like someone beat me with a pillowcase full of tuna-fish cans.
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She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits.
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It's like God left his lunch in the microwave and you get to finish it.
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But these days, I'm working on the theory that killing everyone I don't like might be counterproductive.
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Are you asking because you want to see if doc can turn you into a librarian when all this is over?" [p.240:]"
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Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. Someday the right one will catch you in between the eyes and you'll never see it coming.
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She looks like she just saw a ghost, a unicorn, and Hello Kitty having a three-way in a clown car and they didn't invite her. I
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I hate politics. It's the lowest act a human being can sink to.
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Let me tell you, having cancer sucks, but being broke and having cancer is the shittiest fate that can land on a human being.
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All are equal in the grave.
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Fuck me. I'm a rock star. And all I really wanted was a burrito.
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Hell, boy. At some point, all fathers want to kill their sons. Just like all sons think about killing their old man. They're too much alike or they're not enough alike. It doesn't matter. What's beautiful is that they don't do it.
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It's not necessary to fill every moment with your own voice. Silence terrifies you. You see your own existence as so tenuous that you're afraid you'll pop like a bubble if, at every opportunity, you don't remind the world that you're alive. But wisdom begins in silence. In learning to listen. To words and to the world. Trust me. You won't disappear. And, in time, you might find that you've grown into something unexpected." "What?"
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Mostly, Sub Rosas are the people regular people aren't supposed to know about. It's not that we don't like you; it's that you have a habit of burning us at the stake when you notice us.
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And his first name. Jeffrey spelled Geoffrey. Never trust a Geoffrey. Either they're pretentious pricks or bitter that the family spelled their name funny.
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Like a man once said: 'I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.'" The"
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The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.
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Every day I walk down Hollywood Boulevard and see civilians making themselves crazy worrying about the meetings they're late for or did they put the rent check in the mail or is their ass starting to sag and I think, "I've seen the creaky clockwork that turns the stars and planets. I've gotten drunk with the devil and body-slammed angels. I've seen the Room of Thirteen Doors at the center of the universe. I know the taste of my own blood as..
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She'd [Allegra] look like Foxy Brown's little sister, except her head is SHAVED SMOOTH.
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The lucky among us might get the same deal as Dysmas. Dysmas was one of the thieves crucified next to Christ. When he asked for forgiveness, Christ said, 'Today you will be with me in paradise.' " Candy"
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That's for me, isn't it? I'm going to Hell." "Don't feel so bad. It beats Fresno."
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Kasabian is still shrieking like a banshee, which is pretty good for a guy with no lungs.
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I guess I don't have a choice." "Of course you have a choice," she says. "They're just not very good choices."
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They were the understanding eyes of kindly folk who burned witches alive to save their souls.
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Every time stupid rich people get ripped off, it makes them feel better about hating poor people.
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You murder someone at the Ice Capades and the place goes apeshit. You blow someone's head off in a war zone, people step over the body and have a snack.
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Fear is like curling up under a warm blanket for some people, especially the rich.
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It's part of why I came to Los Angeles. My real work. I kill the dead.
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If you ever see me in a matching T-shirt with a woman--any woman--shoot me. Okay?" Morty nodded. "You didn't have to ask. I'd have done it on principle." "Thank you." "I know a cry for help when I see it."
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LAUREL CANYON PERCHED DIRECTLY ABOVE LOS ANGELES, one of the most expensive collections of winding hills and valleys in the country. Luckily, there were roads that twisted up and down the tortured ridges, or the only things that would have been there were hippies, backpackers, prairie dogs, and the occasional mountain lion dining on the aforementioned hippies, backpackers, and prairie dogs. Unfortunately, because of those roads and the bill..
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The downside to jackrabbit reflexes is that while they get you out of the way of obvious and imminent danger, when you're going forty miles an hour on your front wheel, those reflexes will simply launch you into the air like a squirrel on a land mine.
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