The Cartel
Quotes from the Book
If you let people believe that you are weak, sooner or later you’re going to have to kill them.
Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.
I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
Your strengths are your weaknesses. The more you try to protect something, the more vulnerable you make it.
She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen
Just a short while ago the Republicans were objects of fear and hatred—now they’re just pathetic assholes. Barry took them to the paint and cut their throats. (O-BAM-a!) Now they walk around like white frat boys in Bed-Stuy, talking tough to show they aren’t scared as the urine streams down their chinos into their cordovans. Obama has these dweebs so turned around all they can do is get behind some fat junkie DJ, a gibberish-spewing PsychoBimbette from the Far North, and a tele-dork who gives adrenaline-crazed, 1950s-style “chalk talks” (speaking of little white dicks) like some health-class instructor in a sex-offender unit.
We proclaimed the freedom of the individual, bought and drove millions of cars to prove it, built more roads for the cars to drive on so we could go the everywhere that was nowhere. We watered our lawns, we washed our cars, we gulped plastic bottles of water to stay hydrated in our dehydrated land, we put up water parks. We built temples to our fantasies--film studios, amusement parks, crystal cathedrals, megachurches--and flocked to them. We went to the beach, rode the waves, and poured our waste into the water we said we loved. We reinvented ourselves every day, remade our culture, locked ourselves in gated communities, we ate healthy food, we gave up smoking, we lifted our faces while avoiding the sun, we had our skin peeled, our lines removed, our fat sucked away like our unwanted babies, we defied aging and death. We made gods of wealth and health. A religion of narcissism. In the end, we worshipped only ourselves. In the end, it wasn't enough.
This violent state of mind. This violent state of mine.
The bozo who’s going to go early John Woo all over the manicured lawns and flower beds just to show he doesn’t give a fuck about convention.
A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the “Fuck.” As in life itself.
Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it’s good
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