“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul”
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“After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.”
― Crash
― Crash
“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”
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“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
― Crash
― Crash
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