Noah Cicero Quotes

#1. People always thought if no one believed in God and we were nihilists then people would go around murdering each other. That didn't happen at all, we just bought a lot of things with credit.

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#2. Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and are looking for clarity concerning the life that they are engulfed in.

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#3. Humans do not want to be better. A person may want to swim better or have a better smile. But they don't want humanity to swim better or have a better smile. It isn't even a question of "want," they don't care. I don't care.

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#4. You are only allowed to ask questions if I give you questions to ask.

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#5. Why do anything if the apex of human development is Fran Drescher?

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#6. generation was consumed with serial monogamy. We

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#7. I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don't know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.

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#8. Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs?

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#9. When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

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#10. As you grow older, you start to realize that your parents have lives of their own, separate from you, but by that time your parents have formed the habit of keeping you out of their lives, and no matter how old you get they will never let you get to really know them.

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#11. The party at the bar was for an Internet literary journal that prints a hard copy version that was famous in the world of Internet literary journals that prints hard copy versions. What that means, I do not know.

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#12. You must learn that it is not important for you to ask questions. Nobody needs for you to ask questions. Your job is to follow procedure. Following procedure does not require questions.

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#13. That human life depends upon resources, good soil, and governments with just procedures.

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#14. I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

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#15. He stops to look at a garbage can. He realizes the garbage can will never be his friend and cannot help him. So he wanders away.

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#16. He was so sad he didn't even know it. He was convinced if he could just make meaning, he would have meaning. Not knowing meaning came from the outside.

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#17. A guy is on the radio talking about the war.
Speculating.
Speculating.
Speculating.
He says in less than two hours, we shall fight to preserve freedom.
Freedom.
America wants to give another country freedom.
That doesn't sound that bad, or does it.

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#18. You're really friendly. This isn't really a job for friendly people.

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#19. NEOTAP replaces God and parents. We have surveillance to replace God

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#20. I have no interest in dying.
But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me.

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#21. We want them to have appropriate conversations. They need to live appropriate lives. We are guarding against all inappropriate ideas and thoughts that may arise inside their criminal minds. They are reborn here, they are like little fetuses, and we must raise these fetuses. Everything is gone.

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#22. This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

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#23. Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure.

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#24. I don't think we ever had one real conversation our whole lives.

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