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500. antidotes for loneliness in a goldfish bowl.
be easy to get to.
appear assured at all times.
see no-one as a rival.
compliment those who deserve it.
cooperate.
give yourself to someone each day.
develop that occupies your hands as well as
your head.
make a point with being happy with people.
never cry over spilt milk. what�s done is done.
up there in your goldfish bowl turn to God
and you will find that you were
never alone in the first place.

501. outside is a beautiful blue day
inside there is a war going on.

502. after all
look inside nothing going on at all
the life youd like to lead

503. you see yesterday i wasnt hearing straight but today everything is in its
right place i have learnt the art of self deduction. i take a deep breath
and walk away from and everything is in its right place.
who will have the last in line? i am not hearing straight
i cannot be hearing straight
---End Radiohead-----

---Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar---
504. There was some demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about eachother, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
It�s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it�s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour.

506. The silence depressed me. It wasn�t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

507. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never dissapointed.

508. - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
--End Sylvia Plath- The Bell Jar---

-- Tom Robbins- Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates--
509. That�s the way the mind works: the human brain is genetically disposed toward organization, yet if not tightly controlled, will link imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest of pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, and if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association without regard for logic or chronological sequence.

510. If God had meant for animals to live indoors, he would have given them second morgages.

511. Freedom from the material world. Subconciously, people feel trapped by our culture�s confining buildings and its relentless avalanche of comsumer goods. So, when they watch all this shit being demolished in a totally ireverent and devil-may-care fashion, they experience the kind of release the Greeks used to get from their tragedies. The ecstasy of psychic liberation.

512. There�s birth, there�s death, and in between there�s maintenance.

513. All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriosuly.

514. Undoubtedly the heat was a salient force of that hypothetical retribution, offering as it did a foretaste of the after life steam-cleaning promised in ceratin quaters to the morally gritty. (Surely there would be humidity and plenty of it in hell. Hard to imagine a condemned sinner saying cheerfully, "Well, yes, its 260 degrees down here, but it's a dry heat".)

515. Tennessee Williams once wrote, �We all live in a house on fire, no fore department to call; no way out, jus the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.� In a certain sense, the playwright was correct. Yes, but oh! What a view from that upstairs window!

516. �The hallways of always, pal. One dies int here and is reborn. One doesn�t take notes..�

517. �You can lie to god but not to the devil�
Lies may dissapoint God or exasperate him, but ultimately his compassion dissolves them, cancels them out. The Devil, though, he grows fat on our lies; the more you lie to him, the more you lie to him, the better he likes it. It�s an investment in his firm it increases the value of his stock by fostering the practice of lying. Only truth can hurt the devil. That�s why honesty has been banished from almost every exsisting institution: corporate, religious, and govermental. Truth can be dangerously liberating. Did I mention the devils other name is, El Controlador? He who controls.
--End Tom Robbins---

--Fight Club--
518. "You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

519. Narrator: This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

520. Tyler Durden: Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is a spiritual war. Our depression is our lives.

521. Narrator: Marla was like that cut on the roof of your mouth that would go away if you'd stop tonguing it, but you can't.

522. Narrator: When people think you're dying, they listen
Marla Singer: instead of waiting for their turn to speak.

523. Tyler Durden: It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

524. Tyler Durden: The things you own end up owning you.

525. Tyler Durden: Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

526. Narrator: Losing all hope is freedom.

527. Narrator: This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

528. Tyler Durden: I look the way you want to look, I f--- the way you want to f---.

529. Narrator: I wanted to destroy something beautiful.

530. Tyler Durden: You are not your job. You are not the money in your bank account. You are not the car you drive. You are not how much money is in your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

531. Narrator: With insomnia, you're never really asleep; you're never really awake.

532. Tyler Durden: We were raised on television to believe that we'd all be millionares, movie gods, rock stars, but we won't. And we're starting to figure that out.

533. Tyler Durden: You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

534. Narrator: When people think you're dying, they listen
Marla Singer: instead of waiting for their turn to speak.

535. Tyler Durden: It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

536. Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you?
Narrator: What?
Tyler Durden: Being clever.
Narrator: Great.
Tyler Durden: Keep it up, then.

537. Holding up a wad of cash that the narrator has just given her, Marla gets on the bus.
Marla Singer: You're not getting this back. I consider it asshole tax.

538. Narrator: If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

539. Tyler Durden: Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.

540. Narrator: Losing all hope is freedom.

541. Narrator: I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
---End Fight Club-----

542. �When we�re incomplete, we�re always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we�re still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on�series polygamy�until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure in every relationship we enter.� - Leigh-Cheri, Still Life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins

543. I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin." Aldous Huxley, Prologue, Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.

544. FOOL: What is the significance of 'the Fool' in HALF ASLEEP. . .?
TOM ROBBINS : We are all, each of us, the Fool; and the Fool's Journey is our own journey through life. However, we should make a distinction between Fools -- capital "F" -- and fools -- lower case "f". A Fool is a person who's searching, growing, changing and actively participating in the human whoopjamboreehoo. A fool is a person who has shut down, who has reached a nice comfortable plateau and stopped there, not thinking very deeply, not feeling very much; just consuming, procreating and watching television; clinging desperately to the old values and cliches he or she was once spoon-fed early in life.
The Fool, on the other hand, is a piece of working evolution, complete with trials, errors and ridiculous pratfalls. The lower case fool isn't necessarily a moron, but rather a robot, a zombie, a drone.

545. ...the majority are strung out on symbols. They are so addicted that they prefer abstract symbols to concrete things which symbols represent. It's much easier to cope with the abstract than with the concrete; there's no direct personal involvement - and you can keep an abstract idea steady in your mind whereas real things are usually in a state of flux and always changing. It's safer to play around with a man's wife than with his clich�s. -Tom Robbins Another Roadside Attraction

546. "And what do you believe in??" the parish priest asked Amanda sternly. Amanda looked up from the beetle shell upon whcih she was painting a miniature scene in watercolors. "I beleive in birth, copulation and death," she answered. "Although copulation empodies the other two, and death is only a form of borning. At any rate, I was born nineteen years ago. Some day I shall die. Today, I think I'll copulate." And indeed she did.

*** BEGIN NEITZSCHE QUOTES********

547. "Man says 'I remember' and envies the animal, which immediately
forgets and sees each moment ready to die, sink back into deep night
Extinguished forever." - Nietzsche

548. "The demand for art and beauty is an indirect demand for the ecstasies of sexuality communicated directly to the brain... The furious chaos of desire... a primal energy that can be suppressed and perverted with disastrous consequences, or unleashed in the cause of true liberty... Bounteous and boundless, they free us. �Neitzsche

549. "What? Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?"- Neitzsche

550. "Still is the bottom of my sea, who would guess that it harbors sportive monsters? Imperturbable is my depth, but it sparkles with swimming riddles and laughters."- Neitzsche

551. "New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old
tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn souls."- Neitzsche

552. "The philosopher will betray something of his own ideal when he posits: "He shall be greatest who can be loneliest, the most concealed, the most deviant, the human beyond good and evil, the master of his virtues, he that is over rich in will. Precisely this shall be called greatness: being capable of being as manifold as whole, as ample as full. And to ask it once more: today-- is greatness possible?"

553. "Man says 'I remember' and envies the animal, which immediately
forgets and sees each moment ready to die, sink back into deep night
Extinguished forever." - Nietzsche

554. Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

555. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.- Neitzsche

556. One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.-Neitzsche

557. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent- Friedrich Nietzsche

558. Frederich Neitzsche on Women:

Woman was God's second blunder.

559.God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be
caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
-Neitzsche

560. We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving." �Nietzsche

561. It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself,
something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps,
also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
n Friedrich Nietzsche

562. He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.*~*Neitzche*~*

****END NEITZSCHE QUOTES*******

563. "Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults
your Soul."
- Walt Whitman

564. ALL.THESE.THINGS.IN.LIFE.ARE.MEANT.TO.BE

565. SELF IMPROVEMENT IS MASTURBATION. MAYBE SELF DESTRUCTION IS THE ANSWER.

566. A man is a god in ruins. - R. W. Emerson

567. I WISH I WAS A SACRIFICE, BUT SOMEHOW STILL LIVED ON