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But hey, what doesn’t kill you just gives you seriously fucked-up coping mechanisms and one massive self-destruct button.
“I think you live in a world that’s more interesting than the one most people live in,” he says, and just as my heart starts to sink with disappointment, with a kind of loneliness, he adds, “and I wish I could live in it too.” I feel myself beaming. “I’ll take you sometime.” “I’d like that,” he says.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“You’re a human,” I say. “The machine can try to compress you into something two dimensional, digestible, but that’s not you. And we’re not here to service the machine.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“It’s yours,” he offers. I laugh. “Oh? I can have the world?” “Mine,” he says, “yeah. You can have mine.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“What a child would deserve and what the world was were two very different things.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“With writing, you could always add more. More, more, more until you got to the heart of a thing, and after that, you could chip away the excess.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
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