Will Christopher Baer Quotes

#1. Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it.

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#2. I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

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#3. Disappear, she says. I love that word.

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#4. Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really.

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#5. In a city like San Francisco, you can throw a rock out your front door and hit someone with a nice ass and pretty brown eyes. But to find someone you want to fall asleep with, someone you want to breathe and dream next to, is terribly rare.

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#6. All superheroes had pretty much the same problem. Batman was flash and sexy compared to Bruce Wayne and even Robin was a lot cooler than Dick Grayson. As for Superman, well. It was a fucking miracle that Clark Kent had never committed suicide.

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#7. We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

Sam Altman

#8. Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one. Kiss Me Judas

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#9. Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

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#10. Men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn't tolerate pain well.

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#11. He has the expression of someone who wishes the rain would stop.

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#12. I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

Eartha Kitt

#13. They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.

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#14. I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?

Morgan Spurlock

#15. Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

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#16. The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

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#17. The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

Claudia Rankine

#18. Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.

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#19. A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

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#20. Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

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#21. I'm going to kill Jude this afternoon for fun, then eat my own putrid kidney for dinner.

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#22. Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

Twyla Tharp

#23. I'm cold, Religiously cold.

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#24. I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.

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#25. One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.

Rebecca McKinsey

#26. People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.

Joan Larkin

#27. I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

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#28. It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

Seneca The Younger

#29. And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

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#30. It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.

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