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“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”
― Pretty Monsters: Stories
― Pretty Monsters: Stories
“When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it', and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.”
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
― Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
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