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1. "Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes."
From Generation X
2. "What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet?"
From Generation X
3. "Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside onself so that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing employers and friends -- most of whom thought things were fine."
From Generation X
4. "Meeting Anna-Louise was like finding a stranger's shopping list on the mall floor and realising there are other, more interesting diets than your own. It was the first time I ever felt incomplete."
From Shampoo Planet
5. "You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog."
From Shampoo Planet
6. "When you're young you always feel that life hasn't yet begun...But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive."
From Life After God
7. "What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?"
From Microserfs
8. "At twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star... by twenty-five you know you're not going to be a dentist or a professional... by thirty, a darkness starts moving in - you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy or successful... by thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing the rest of your life; you become resigned to your fate."
From Girlfriend in a Coma
9. "There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now."
From Girlfriend in a Coma
10. "Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words."
From Hey Nostradamus!
11. "If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love."
From Hey Nostradamus!
12. "Don’t you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?"
From jPod
13. "To be merely good enough is to never succeed."
From jPod
14. "We’ve started to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. God must feel that way all the time. I think people in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
From jPod
15. "The three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity."
From jPod
16. "Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?"
From Generation A
17. "Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure."
From Player One
18. "The best thing about being young is being stupid. Or rather, the best thing about being young is being too stupid to know how stupid you really are."
From Eleanor Rigby
19. "Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you."
From Eleanor Rigby
20. "I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween."
From The Gum Thief
21. "A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives."
From The Gum Thief
22. "If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget sex or politics or religion. Or even failure. Loneliness is what clears out a room."
From Miss Wyoming
23. “He felt intact but worthless, like a chocolate rabbit selling for 75 percent off the month after Easter.”
From Miss Wyoming
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