"I want to make something, and I want people to know I made it."

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“You say catastrophe, I say, fuck yes.”

“Romance is all about making a story out of our love”

“...There’s a romance to danger. There’s a romance to drinking, to drugs, to petty crime and to heartbreak and loneliness. All of those things can be used to make the STORY of our lives better.”

“There are jobs I could work, temp jobs, call center jobs, tech support, if I had to. I have before, and I suspect that there will be times in my life when I have to get those jobs again, when I have to make ends meet. But I don't have another career waiting for me. I don't want another career.”

“Now, I recognize that these are very real possibilities." I said. "But let's pretend for a second that they aren't.”

“Fuck politics. I just want to burn shit down.”

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