“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.” PeopleWorldFeelsBelieveMadeIdentityCoreAttractiveFakeEmptinessReplacedHollowDetachmentNumbness Author:Douglas Coupland
“Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.” MenFeelsMadeDoneCitiesOur LivesStreetsStandingEmptyBraveEdgesDesertFakeStillnessRabbitsDwellingEmpty Life Author:William Saroyan
“I'd wanted to be a writer my whole life. But when I finally made it, I felt like a greyhound catching the mechanical rabbit she'd been chasing for so long--discovering it was merely metal, wrapped in cloth. It wasn't alive; it had no spirit. It was fake.” LongMadeWholeWantedSpiritFeltAliveWhole LifeMade ItFakeMetalsDiscoveringChasingRabbitsCatchingGreyhounds Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith