Bryan Bougher
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“I notice that capable men are still at a premium in our society; we still need the man who is intelligent enough to think of the proper questions to ask.”
― I, Robot
― I, Robot
“Hide in disgusting places, because no one will want to look there, even if they know they should.”
― Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
― Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
“Long since then he’d come to realize that his persistent optimism had to be a form of hysterical insanity. Hell, everybody’s crazy, these days. Yes, he answered himself. But paranoia and depression are adaptive, now. Idealism is only stupid.”
― Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
― Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
“I don’t know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.”
― What Are You Going Through
― What Are You Going Through
“I also know they might be nothing more than a man hungry for meanings inventing them where they don’t exist. Arguably, all meanings are invented anyway; and since I have no one to please but myself, and no one to read this who will care, except perhaps one, then I may write as I please, and think as I please, and reread this whenever I can bear it.”
― Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
― Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
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