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#1

“The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over trivial matters. Only imbeciles see things in black and white: liberal or conservative, yes or no, this or that. Those in power laugh at those people in their morally inverted shades of grey, basking in the labels they've created so the people are easier to control.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: class, forlorn, grey, ignorance, passions, planet, power, save, shades, struggle, stupidity, trivial

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#2

“It was simpler just to keep things simple.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: forlorn, passions, simplicity

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#3

“First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our enemies seem to change over the course of history along with our ways of fighting them. But what hasn't changed is government profit; politicians and leaders seem to always be getting richer by the blood of our soldiers. Makes you wonder who the real enemy has been all this time.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: communists, corruption-politics, enemies, natives, nazis, politicians, soldiers, terrorists, war

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#4

“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: adulation, beauty, dante, forlorn, ink, paper, passions, string, violin, woman, wood

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#5

“It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’s why the military often trains people to suppress their emotions. Unfortunately for them, humans aren't machines. We feel, we love, we cry, we despair, and we rejoice. Anyone who’s ever tried to convince me not to feel is someone I shouldn’t have trusted. The only reason you should shut off your emotions and emulate a robot is if you're doing horrible things. How fatal my decisions have been. How many people would be loving, rejoicing, and feeling right now rather than crying indefinitely in the depths of the afterlife? If only I’d figured this out sooner.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: compassion, courage, empathy, emulate, feeling, forlorn, horrible, love, passions, robots, strength, suppression, things, trust, warmy

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#6

“I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the status-quo for the sole purpose of fitting in. Whatever... gunrunners, terrorists, bankers, dictators, goons; we all have it coming.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: action-hero, bruce, crown, death, forlorn, inevitability, passions, status-quo

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#7

“Those who’ve left their bootprints in the trenches are those who value human life most. They get unwanted glimpses into the savage nature we really have underneath all the expensive clothes and moisturized skin. This of course, rules out the politicians, feminists, and liberals who are far too cozy hiding behind their daddies’ wallets and sophomoric mentalities as those who feign having tasted the true consequence of a single blood-drop darkening the sand.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: brutish-nature, compassion, humanity, life, soldiers, war

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#8

“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with an unpleasant after-taste. We got along just fine.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: alcohol-abuse, alcoholism, body-parts, bourbon, dante, fire, glass, inferno, kentucky

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#9

“Last call. It was about that time. He’d probably been drinking liquid courage all night, waiting for his chance to hit on her. I had little choice in assuming he was a three-time loser with a wad-of-cash to wave around and a bozo smile to boot. About to prate his many accomplishments as a man of the world and his travels among the world’s top markets.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: banker, bar, day-trader, forlorn, last-call, liquid-courage, passions, poseurs, prating, show-off

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#10

“What kind of dark, twisted mind preys on young women? I think it was Poe that said the death of a beautiful woman is the most poetical thing in the universe, and if that was true… I was John Milton.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: allen, beautiful-woman, death, edgar, john, milton, murder, poe, predator, prey

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#11

“Here… our failures are known to every Tom Dick and Harry while our successes fall only on deaf ears. It’s death, hostile civilians, greedy politicians, and more death, and forget about love. You could be here now and across the world in 11 minutes. If you're lucky you’ll be blown to the next world in much less than 11 seconds.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: bruce, civilians, crown, death, forlorn, love, passions, populus, war

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#12

“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, even... beauty.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: beauty, bodyguard, consumption, forlorn, money, passions, people, pretty-woman, rich, souls, woman

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#13

“I’d be damned if I listened to the same money-grubbing whores who'd sell their ideals and principles for their fifteen minutes of fame; the ignorant buffoons that live in a one-dimensional 140-character world. Tweet tweet, roar roar, caw caw, more like baa baa.”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: 140-character, bimbos, fifteen-minutes-of-fame, ideals, money, sheep, sheeple, twitter

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#14

“Unfortunately for him he looked more like an innocent man on America’s terror watch-list rather than a gallant Viking possessing all the benefits of modernity. More like a villain in a Western fairy tale with his slicked-bouffant obsidian hair rather than the long sun-like curls that all great saviors of the poor have been obliged to possess. I squinted to the side towards him for a second and he caught my gaze almost immediately; his inky irises were comfortable enough to hold my stare indefinitely, his pupils seemed entirely ravenous as opposed to the feminist preferred oceanic turquoise, which for them is a physical demarcation of emotional sensitivity. He seemed like an uncanny bad guy any which way I looked at him, except of course, by his actions thus far…”
― Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions

tags: america, blonde, blue-eyes, bouffant, curly-hair, fairy-tale, gaze, on, poor, savior, slicked, terror, viking, war, watchlist, western

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