They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.
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Zum Autor"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
"Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away."
"If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create."
"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead."