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Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchased in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats that you've spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life...but why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?

Trainspotting

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Trainspotting. Directed by Danny Boyle, Channel Four Films/Figment Films/Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, 1996.

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You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy!"

Tony Montana

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again. It was just all routine and you didn't even think about it.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

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If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't care if we're completely insane.

Revolutionary Road

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Revolutionary Road. Directed by Sam Mendes, DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Vantage/BBC Films/Neal Street Productions/Evamere Entertainment, 2008.

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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

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