Gene Doucette Quotes

#1. [M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever need.

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#2. The thing is, we all have a little animal in us, and if you ask us to, we can do a very good job of behaving like one.

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#3. Most every old civilizations looks at others--members of the same species but not of the same tribe--as wild men. It's a common rationalization, because when you reduce someone else to a level of something like an animal, it makes them easier to kill.

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#4. To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of complex rituals, many involving copious amounts of sex ("the gods wish us to have sex" is the oldest pickup line in the world).

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#5. Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

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#6. [D]espite the patina of civility coating most of modern society, underneath it is a thick layer of savagery.

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#7. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.

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#8. Morning conversations should be between very close friends or lovers, and otherwise avoided entirely.

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#9. Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.

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#10. [T]he truth is the percentage of vampires that are also evil killers is about the same as the percentage of normal people who are also evil killers.

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#11. I was suicidal for two solid centuries once. That was during the early part of what they now call the Dark Ages, in medieval Europe. Suicidal tendencies were de rigueur at the time, and I'm nothing if not trendy.

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#12. Religious fanatics are the worst. They're basically impossible to bargain with, they accept no outside opinion about anything, and they departed from reality well before you met them.

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#13. [K]nowing one's fate never made a whit of difference, except it made the fated a tad more anxious.

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#14. Karyos's people adopted an ingenious, if somewhat perplexing attitude that life was a circle. Not like Disney's circle of life thing, which was really just a nice way to say, "death is normal, children, so suck it up.

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