Quotes From "The Human Script" By Johnny Rich

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This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch. Johnny Rich
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Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate. Johnny Rich
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I stare out at the real world projected on the windows Johnny Rich
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His suffering was no more real than he was. Johnny Rich
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Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins. Johnny Rich
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For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are. Johnny Rich
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It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them. Johnny Rich
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You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge. Johnny Rich
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I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this. Johnny Rich
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Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? Johnny Rich
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I know everything must be a lie, but I believe it anyway. Johnny Rich
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Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is. Johnny Rich
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Stories are just lies made to look like truth. Johnny Rich
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Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering Johnny Rich
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Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script. Johnny Rich
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I may not be free, but I’m not about to surrender the illusion of choice. Johnny Rich
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The future is certain. It is just not known. Johnny Rich
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All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable. Johnny Rich
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Because he believed in himself, he believed what he did was important. Or maybe it was the other way around. Johnny Rich
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Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book Johnny Rich
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Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness Johnny Rich
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In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. Johnny Rich
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Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again. Johnny Rich
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I’m a bit-part actor in my own life Johnny Rich
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To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different. Johnny Rich
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Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script. Johnny Rich
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He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time. Johnny Rich
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To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. Johnny Rich
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He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing Johnny Rich
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The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love Johnny Rich
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Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? Johnny Rich
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These are the things you don’t say, even to someone you love. Johnny Rich
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Silent is an anagram of listen. Johnny Rich
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The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice. Johnny Rich
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The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects Johnny Rich
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Wouldn’t a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said? Johnny Rich
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Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose. Johnny Rich
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Even when I press against him his presence is too far away. Johnny Rich
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Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly. Johnny Rich
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Anyone can be a story. Everyone is. Johnny Rich
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As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author. Johnny Rich
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Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented. Johnny Rich
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Even Damocles developed a routine. Johnny Rich
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I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded Johnny Rich
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He’s a typical existentialist. And that’s a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. Johnny Rich
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Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe. Johnny Rich
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So, my sweet, did it put the fun into funeral? Johnny Rich
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Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine. Johnny Rich
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To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God’s existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something. Johnny Rich
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He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians. Johnny Rich