Sam Pink Quotes

#1. And I realized that part of my problem was I visibly resembled an adult. But never became one.

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#2. If I ever find a dead horse, I am going to beat the fucking shit out of it.

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#3. Life like two broken hands trying to pick flowers for someone you really like.

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#4. I think that if I discovered I had cancer I would immediately say the word, "Phew."
Phew.

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#5. And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot.

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#6. In the photo, he and some old girlfriend smiled - greasy faces idiotic with hope that the picture would one day remind them that for three seconds they acted happy and thought it final.

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#7. There should be a word for what happens when you begin to ruin a feeling by saying it.

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#8. I don't know if I should judge myself based on what I can accept or what I can't accept but I do know that I always dislike where I am and then look back on where I was with sadness because it is gone.
(That's means I am worthless and it's my fault.

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#9. from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace:

Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my thumb and glued it to your baby's head because I thought you'd like him better as a unicorn" means nothing to them.

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#10. I don't make eye contact with any girls because I don't want to ruin their night and make them feel bad.
I make eye contact with some guys because sometimes I just feel angry.

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#11. My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.

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#12. My roommate knocks on my door and I try not to move.
My heart is beating fast.
He knocks again and then leaves.
I win.
This is but one of the many victories I have exampled as a human among humans.
I have no equals.
My strength is unmatched.

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#13. He just danced, eating chips. Then he started bouncing up and down, bending at the knees. Classic baby style. I felt like turning to the girl next to me and saying, "Ah, classic baby style.

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#14. The dream I have when I go to sleep involves me crawling through a very narrow wooden corridor for a very long time.

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#15. My history is the history of things imagined and not-happened.

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#16. You have no idea how much "no" there is in all things.

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#17. I think tomorrow I'll burn myself on the stove so people will feel sorry for me.

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#18. Yearly Christmas card that reads 'Still haven't killed myself, Merry Christmas.' Life

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#19. I always think about getting randomly hurt and how awesome it would be to just immediately be changed and removed from my situation. To have something direct to worry about, like a broken leg or a really big cut. I'd no longer be a person blending in.

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#20. And I hope we meet again so you can guess how old I am by the rings around my eyes and I hope we meet again so I can judge how much I've died according to your limp smile.

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#21. And I know different methods of self-destruction but none as intense as sitting still by myself.

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#22. from the poem: MANNEQUINS THAT SWEAT BLACK INK AND NEVER HAVE ANY FUN

If you put a twizzler in your ear it looks like your ear is vomiting blood.

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#23. And I know that when I run from something, there is a bigger part of me that hopes I get caught than there is that hopes I get away.

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#24. I walk down the hallway and go into my room and call it a day and it calls me something else.

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#25. He says, "Does it ever bother you how unneeded you are, almost everywhere.

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#26. The terrible divide between trying and being ready to try.

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#27. And I'm thinking a thought that is something like, "Be thankful for what's left of you.

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#28. Every time I leave the apartment, I mistake the tree stump across the street for two people kissing/holding each other. I've forgotten every time that it's a tree stump. I'm disappointed every time it's a tree stump.

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#29. I'm hoping to find an advertisement for a job that entails worrying when removing your hand from your pockets because you always think that you are dropping something so you turn around and check the ground and shit but nothing, but maybe something, but always maybe something.

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#30. Sometimes I definitely feel a sense of accomplishment but it's never after accomplishing something.

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#31. Outside, I experience a bad feeling and I realize it is because I haven't been outside for a few day so now it's uncomfortable.

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#32. And I lie down on your carpet so long that you think I will stay forever but I get up and I see the indentation in the carpet and I get jealous and say, "I am no longer needed here.

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#33. I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life.

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#34. It seems I keep track of opportunities I will never have more than focusing on ones I do have and could have.

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#35. People viewed me as an adult but I was just shit.
I always expected adulthood to happen, to make, like, a popping or dinging sound when it did.

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#36. And I realize I have never once actually been happy in my life.
And also never felt any kind of care that didn't threaten to give up when challenged.

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#37. Not quite a piece of shit myself, but the streak for sure. For sure the area the shit passes over and leaves behind parts of itself.

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#38. You aren't sure whether you have feelings or not but that's all part of the shrug you have performed in slow motion for your entire life so far.

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#39. You are a very real person when that is what you wish you weren't most.

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#40. And I realize that there is nothing to worry about without first wanting to be alive a certain way.
That is somewhat relaxing to think.

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#41. We are not touching or communicating.
I like it.
It feels real to me.
It feels like practice.

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