Phil Volatile Quotes

#1. I can remember when
delusions of grandeur
entailed wanting to
be a rock star, movie star,
a millionaire; to make it
as a writer
now it seems that it's
to want to earn a
decent living

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#2. I pawned the remote to my misery,
trading it in for liquor that was cheap;
screwdrivers for my vitamin c,
and a little bloodstream to my IV,
helping to soothe my lunacy

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#3. But there's a million of these
towns that are like factories,
breeding hate and fear that only
the fortunate will never meet
And these zoomed up
kids die like saints, for
someone else's
dollar

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#4. I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.

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#5. I don't need the facts. I'm a Pisces.

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#6. We should've
thrown fucking riots
the first time they
had us ring up
and bag our own
groceries

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#7. When Pisces go to war, there's never a shortage of broken hearts.

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#8. Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst.

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#9. Too many codeine pills,
Too many nights of cold chills
Too many weak-handed deals
Too many lives, the addict steals

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#10. I've looked at so
much porn that
every woman I meet
looks vaguely
familiar

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#11. He was tired
of being called
a fag and teased
for his sexuality
by one of the guards,
so he tried to hang
himself, twice

The kid got a little
closer the second
time, but I won't be
around to see a
third

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#12. Adios

Her pretty picture
lying on the
ground was like
the toppling
of some
fascist
regime
And burning
the photograph,
was the
celebration

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#13. And somewhere
out there,
in the river of
addicts,
alcoholics,
wife beaters,
doormats,
overeducated legalized thieves,
fascist police,
and bitter rivalries
someone told me
it's a good city,
and I don't know
what's more frightening

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#14. Failure is the new success.

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#15. I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober.

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#16. Two kinds of
people will love you:
those who confess
it, and those who
show you, like
cards on a table,
because love is
a gamble

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#17. There's a universal
understanding between
men of the silent sorrow
a man endures when
he loses a woman he
loves

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#18. America - where we hate our
fathers, love our mothers, and
everyone is hung up on trying
to be a man

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#19. But now that I'm scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I realize that one escape route
leads to another

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#20. What simple and
ordinary lives we live,
underneath the shadows
of projection screen
artists

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#21. I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe

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#22. We had scar-tissue
romance and ours was
a relationship of saying
goodbye - every time
we fought, every time
we fucked, and every time
we called it quits, before
picking up our knives
again

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#23. I'm in love with my corporate girlfriend,
with the Cyclops heart

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#24. And these are the same
type of people who kill
the innocent and
justify it by saying
"They've gone to be
with Jesus now"
But we won't talk
about how they
crucified Him, too

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#25. Because any guilt the size
of a speck of dust, or shame,
can crush even the best of men,
in mountains of weight

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#26. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all

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#27. I used to fear things like not having enough alcohol and drugs, or the money to get them. Now I fear someone holding me down and physically forcing me to take drugs and drink alcohol. I fear that for some reason I wouldn't be allowed or wouldn't be able to read anymore.

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