Top 32 Johnny Truant Quotes
#1. All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.
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#2. You will either arrive at the end of your life in style or you will arrive broken and beaten, but whichever way you choose, have no doubt that you WILL ARRIVE.
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#3. If tomorrow, ninety percent of the world's population started scooting around on its collective asses while wearing dead raccoons as hats, people who walked on two feet and were visibly raccoonless would be called "weird.
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#4. as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.
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#5. Maurice laid down all of his cards, then said, Gin. Reginald looked up into Maurice's face and said, I thought we were playing poker and Maurice replied, That's your problem.
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#6. It's ironic. Letting yourself experience what you most don't want to experience is the only way to truly be human. ***
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#7. I'm considered a health nut amongst vampires. I usually feed only on vegetarians.
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#9. One day, if I'm very lucky, I'll be a shriveled 100-year old guy with a cane. An old man with a kid's mind, wondering how the hell this could have happened.
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#11. in the small amount of time you have to live, you can be whatever you want. It means that even though the universe doesn't care enough to give you what you want, it doesn't care enough to stop you from having it, either.
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#12. I wanted a different kind of success. Freedom. Happiness. And yes, some money to make the way a bit more interesting. Different rewards, different game. Meaning I'd have to play by different rules -- applying different stimuli in order to receive a different response.
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#13. Used to be, we were afraid of being eaten by tigers. That was a legit fear. You get eaten by a tiger just one time, and things change dramatically for you.
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#14. Rules, guidelines, and even laws are someone's opinion about how things should be done. Nothing more.
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#16. You are that beetle on the streets of New York. The universe doesn't hate you, but it doesn't love you, either. You're just an atom in its infinite workings. The universe doesn't care if you live, die, suffer, or thrive. Only YOU care.
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#17. The way to expand your joy is by expanding your capacity for discomfort and failure.
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#18. Do the idiotic. Follow your heart. Try the impossible. Do something crazy.
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#19. You'd think we're never going to die, the way we cower and second-guess and fret over each little action.
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#20. so entering a conversation that you'd overheard but hadn't been invited to join was sort of like peeing in someone's coffee while they stood there and watched you do it.
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#21. The cute little pinpricks of light you see out there are other giant, explosive, incredibly pissed-off balls of gas floating in an infinite void, most of which are far more impressive than our puny sun.
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#22. Dicky was intelligent but he ended up selling tea because he was socially retarded.
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#23. The sun rose. Flowers bloomed. People even continued to talk to me as if I weren't a complete failure, as if they didn't know or possibly -- unthinkably -- didn't care. Life went on. I think that's when I realized that it's all bullshit.
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#24. found myself working hard for mediocre pay and mediocre rewards, doing mediocre work that bored me but that I felt I shouldn't complain about.
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#26. You are here now. Eventually, you will be gone. You have but a nanosecond on the universal clock to do whatever it is you're going to do. When that time is gone, it's gone. Forever. That
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#27. We're not the fragile beings we've been trained to think we are. We're not as weak (of body, of mind, of will) as we've hypnotized ourselves into thinking.
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#28. but what if science in this world has managed a way to actualize dreams? So if someone can dream something, they can manifest that into reality.
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#29. Mindless conformity is what turns us from humans into sheep.
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#30. Success" means nothing more than playing a certain game well enough to receive whatever high accolades exist within that game.
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#31. There's a drinking game in Heaven, where angels do a shot every time humans invest "for the long term.
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#32. think about the littler rules. Club rules. Social standards. Values. "The way things are normally done." Opinions, every one. Yet we live our lives as if they're immutable truths.
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