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[learnedax]

Ordinary fuckin' people. I hate 'em. An ordinary person spends his life avoiding tense situations. A repoman spends his life getting into tense situations.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
you're the only person sitting in the audience?
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And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
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So we shall let the reader answer the question for himself. Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Why are these always either/or questions?

[new-man.livejournal.com]

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!
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Why would I lie about a thing like that? Well, because most of the time the truth is so boring or complicated that most people don't really want to hear it.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what a ship is for.