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Once you realize the universe sucks, you got nothing to lose.
— Tommy Corn · I Heart Huckabees
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A bleak but freeing thought. Once you accept that the universe is unpleasant, the speaker says, you have nothing left to lose, so fear loses its grip. Disappointment becomes a kind of permission to act, put in blunt, casual language.
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