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“To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
“One problem with people is that as soon as they fill a space it's them you see and not the space. Large, desolate landscapes stop being large, desolate landscapes once they have people in them. They define what the eye sees. And the human eye is almost always directed at other humans. In this way an illusion is created that humans are more important than those things on earth which are not human. It's a sick illusion.”
― Doppler
― Doppler
“Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now”
― The Spectacular Now
― The Spectacular Now
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