“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
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“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“I automatically assume people won't like me, so I don't talk to them unless they approach me first. I can't become a part of a crowd because I can't get past that feeling that I don't belong.”
― Ballads of Suburbia
― Ballads of Suburbia
“If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.”
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“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Women
― Women
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