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Humans aren’t ants; we aren’t bees. There is no communal intelligence. We talk but we don’t really hear each other. We are not a community, no matter how we pretend otherwise. A million people are simply a million social isolates, each one
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“The death drive, which some people have called Thanatos, for branding reasons I think, is an urge we have to return to our earliest state, an inorganic state.”
― The Reluctant Demon
― The Reluctant Demon
“Knock, knock.” “Who’s there?” “God.” “God who?” “Your god.” There was a pause. “Oh. My god.” “That’s right.”
― Beelzebub: A Memoir
― Beelzebub: A Memoir
“In life, he would occasionally darn socks, though his approach to the task was to stare at the hole-y garment, yell “Darn!” then toss the offending sock in the trash can.”
― The League of Unusual Denizens
― The League of Unusual Denizens
“What’s that a picture of? A cow eating grass. Where’s the grass? The cow ate it all. Where’s the cow? Why should he hang around if all the grass has been eaten?” You know: white art. White stuff.”
― I'm No Angel
― I'm No Angel
“You humans, though, have a choice. You can be good. You can be bad. When you are good, you can accomplish sublime things. Feed a starving child. Risk your life to rescue another. Let someone else have the last slice of cheesecake. But when you’re bad, there’s no limit to your atrocities. You commit genocide, develop a weapon that can kill a hundred thousand in the blink of an eye,”
― Beelzebub: A Memoir
― Beelzebub: A Memoir
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