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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Personal identity seems like it’s just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ to Jay Gatsby in ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you’re given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
I believe in something. But I don’t believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
My goal is more to be remembered. They’ll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.