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“The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to. ”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“I wasn't quite sure what I'd just seen, but I knew it was time for me to leave.”
― Louis Theroux

“Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“I suppose there won't be any Mexican food in the whites-only homeland,' I said.
Hm, I'd never thought of that possibility' Jerry said. He paused. 'They wouldn't be allowed to vote but they could cook and clean for us. Afterall, we're not extremists.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“But people don't change their beliefs easily. Even when their deepest convictions are challenged - by the failure of the world to end, for example - they continue on their way, sticking to the old routine: they get back on their weird bikes and ride again.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“On the list of qualities necessary to humans trying to make our way through life, truth scores fairly low. Why do people believe and do weird things? Because in the end, feeling alive is more important than telling the truth. We have evolved as living creatures to express ourselves, to be creative, to tell stories. We are instruments for feeling, faith, energy, emotion, significance, belief, but not really truth.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“liable to quote lyrics about the death of the campaigner Blair Peach during an anti-Nazi rally in London in the seventies and rant about oligarchic corruption in the US body politic.”
― Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

“But one didn’t attach any more significance to these rumours than to the idea that a certain film star had a furry animal removed from his rectum”
― Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

“to find the comfort of friendliness and laughter in the dark.”
― Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

“Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. It ends up displacing other relationships, becoming inseparable from your sense of who you are until a better, longer life no longer seems possible.”
― Louis Theroux

“She said. "I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days and bad days.”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures

“But in fact every act of power involves a kind of negotiation. By giving a little, you are inviting more trespasses, putting yourself in more danger.”
― Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

“groupuscules making their lonely cataclysmic prophesies.”
― Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

“If I were accountable for every passing thought I had, I’d be in deep trouble.”
― Louis Theroux, Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

“decorousness, that, not knowing better, one might”
― Louis Theroux, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures