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“Well," Mr. Cheeseman interjected. "Perhaps there's an easy solution to this. Maybe Captain Fabulous has an alter ego." "What's an alter ego?" asked Gerard. "It's a superhero's true but secret identity," said Chip. "You know, the way that Superman is really Clark Kent." "Superman is really Clark Kent?" "It's pretty obvious," said Penny. "To everyone but you and Lois Lane." "Okay," Gerard conceded. "Captain Fabulous's alter ego will be...Teddy Roosevelt.”

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Book:Another Whole Nother Story
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“I suppose I became a ghost long before I died. Or maybe I was never born at all. Georgie Gust—my puppet, my echo, my alibi—he lives the life I never could. And Ben? Ben is the disease, the master puppeteer. Together we dance. Alone, we rot. It’s not schizophrenia, really—it’s an orchestra without a conductor. Some days I am all the instruments at once. Other days, I am silence. But always, always, the music aches.”

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Book:Jonathan Harnisch: An Alibiography
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“Membayangkan Surga Apa yang kau lihat di layar yang berpendar ini, Kay? Serupa senja yang tumbuh dari sebatang pohon di sebuah tempat yang kau bayangkan seperti surga. Cahaya lampu itu menyapu wajahmu dengan warna lembayung dan berkilau seperti pelangi. Tapi tak ada apa pun kutemukan pada seri wajahmu selain nafsu yang tertahan dan seulas senyum kemesuman. Tepat di puncak penantian dari segala perhatian yang tertuju pada dirimu. Mata yang tak pernah menyadari tersesat dalam raga belia yang entah milik siapa. Aura kemudaan yang berasa sia-sia. Telah kau reguk semua kebahagiaan dari ekspresi wajah tolol yang ditunggangi oleh nafsu alter egonya. Atau barangkali, telah habis kau hirup wangi kelopak mawar hitam yang tumbuh di ranjangmu setiap pagi. Sudah lama sekali rasanya waktu berlalu. Seperti ketika, kau masih suka nongkrong di cafe sambil meneguk cappucino dari cangkir porselen yang perlahan mulai retak. Sementara laju usia mengalir di tenggorakanmu yang bening bagai pualam. Waktu meninggalkan jejak buta di dalam handphonemu. Menyisakan tatap mata orang yang tak lagi mampu menafsirkan apa yang telah engkau lakukan. Bukankah, mereka tak lagi melihatmu sebagaimana adanya dirimu saat ini atau sepuluh tahun dari sekarang? Tak satu pun dari mereka percaya bahwa usiamu belum lewat dua puluh tahun. Siapa mendamba merah muda anggur kirmizi yang tumbuh di dadamu? Tak satu pun telinga sanggup melawan sihir dari gelak tawamu yang getir. Mata bodoh yang tak sanggup melupakan bayangan pisang matang kau kunyah dengan brutal sebagai kudapan di tengah jeda pertunjukan. Hidup tak seperti kecipak ikan di dalam aquarium transparan tertanam di dinding. Air kolam di pekarangan menjelma jadi bayangan jemari tak henti menggapai. Gelembung kekhawatiran yang tak sanggup memahami makna puisi yang sengaja ditulis untuk mengabadikan namamu. Taman yang kau bayangkan itu, Kay bukanlah surga yang sesungguhnya. Di sana tak ada sungai keabadian atau pangeran tampan yang menunggu kehadiranmu dengan kerinduan. Yang ada cuma kelebat kilat dan hujan airmata hitam. Mengucur seperti lendir laknat yang mengalir dari hidungmu saat kau meradang karena influensa. Tak ada satu hal pun yang menyenangkan, Kay. Hanya sedikit tersisa cerita yang busuk dan menjijikkan sebagai satu-satunya obrolan untuk perintang waktu. 2024 - 2025”

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Author:Titon Rahmawan
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“The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.”

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Author:Jonathan Raban
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“The first thing Islam does is to destroy the self image of the believers. It convinces them that without Islam they are worthless creatures only fit for hellfire. It tells them that their culture is jahelyyah (ignorance) and their ancestral religion was taaghoti (satanic). They are made to despise their identity and selfhood and seek their glory in their submission to Islam and slavery to its deity who was Muhammad's own alter ego.”

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Author:Ali Sina
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“I would always drink purple drink - syrup. I would just be in a room, screwing and chopping up music. It was like an alter ego - I would turn into another person when I was on a substance. My music would get darker and weirder, and it inspired a lot of people. But I've changed my life and stopped smoking. I like to turn up and have fun when I get the chance, but I don't overdo it now.”

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Author:SpaceGhostPurrp
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“When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.”

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Author:Planningtorock
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“Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
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