The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.
The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
No detail is too minor to note.
Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All these little doses of emotion. Someone's always spraying the air with their mood.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. She said, "Even absolute corruption has its perks.
Our footsteps echo against the concrete floor. The steel roof hums with rain. And she says, 'Don't you feel, somehow, buried in history?'
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics."
Until you deal with your real personal issues, you'll never be able to control yourself.
Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.
Doctor Sarah didn't start out by attacking and berating everybody who called her radio show," Mona says. "She used to have a little time slot and a little audience, and she seemed to really care about helping people."
In order to save the world, Jesus Christ suffered for about thirty-six hours on the cross. I am willing to suffer an eternity in hell for the same cause.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
The more people die, the more things stay the same.
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.
Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.
This culling poem is a blessing. Why do you think it was created in the first place? It will save millions of people from the slow terrible death we're headed for from disease, from famine, drought, from solar radiation, from war, from all the places we're headed.
"The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.
Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.