“Grow a garden. When there’s a food shortage in the future, you’ll need it. And when people try to steal your food and you shoot them, you’ll also need a good place to hide the bodies.”

“As a thinker, and most writers would consider themselves thinkers, your competition is not only the whole world, but it’s also the people of the past, and the people of the future. And the people of the future are the dangerous ones, because you’ll never know how good they are.
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“Suicide pact: I’ll shoot you, and then you’ll shoot me.”

“Here you’ll find everything you don’t need—and much less!”

“If you supplied me a tissue, I wouldn’t need it because I wouldn’t feel like crying. But if you withhold it, you’ll make me sad and you’ll make me cry, thus causing me to need the very thing you won’t give me. So if you give it to me, I won’t need it, and if you don’t give it to me, your actions end up causing me to need it.”

“Cats are always there when you need them, asleep, telling you with their body language that they don’t need you.”

“A brick could be used as a trophy, and when you get yours, believe me, you’ll have earned it.
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