Magnificent Ruin

He wanted so badly, once in a while, or even just once, to know exactly what to do.

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In all those years of rushing, nothing got done any faster.

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Sooner or later, one way or another, if you care about your work, your employers will make you wish you didn’t.

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You discover too late the meaning of too late.

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Outside, with the wind and trees and sounds, things were good. Inside, with people, and conclusions, and expectations, not so much.

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The way forward: Simply Be Exhausted.

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While most of the time you cling to life with fierce gratitude, more often than you’d like to admit you just want to give up and drink yourself to death.

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Intelligence correlated roughly to awareness of how language is perceived by others.

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Until tomorrow but that’s just another time

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What I want in a typeface is factuality.

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Your prayers were answered, just not in a form you recognized.

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Sick with worry, half-mad with hope. Talking to an empty room. Help is on its way.

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You’ve finally perfected your craft. The only interesting parts were the mistakes.

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He was a man of peace. The killing was done elsewhere.

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Sitting with eyes closed in front of a fan before work, sipping lukewarm tea.

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This person is part of the person that was that person. You don’t get to choose the part that’s convenient.

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He’d switched to decaffeinated coffee and non-alcoholic beer, but in such prodigious quantities that it was the same as before.

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The part that makes assumptions is the dumbest part of your brain.

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We thought of them as our oldest friends, and I only gradually came to understand that they had always regarded me, in some fashion I was unable to decipher, as an object of ridicule.

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The truth, by the time it reaches your lips, is no longer true.

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