"And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same."

Irony, Identity, Arrogance, Self

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"And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same."

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"The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion."

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"You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that."

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"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

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"Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out."

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"I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart."

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"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."

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"You get to decide what to worship."

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"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."

Love

"Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you."

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"We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness."

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