8 Quotes by Cory Duchesne

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are.

When you're trying to fall asleep alone and you hear your buddy having sex on the coach in your parents living room.... Yes, it's like a traumatic nuclear explosion at Jurassic park. It's the kindness that causes temporary blindness... One day you'll laugh. But at first you might not find it funny." - @

The unity between tragedy and comedy appears then, 'Je Suis'. Neither tears of mirth nor of sorrow, and yet passing through the two.

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

I started smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol for the same reason I would sometimes tell self aggrandizing lies; I was wanting in courage. The only intimacy I could find was through drinking, smoking, lying and taking short cuts. A good brain needs the courage to maintain it's health, and if you don't have courage, you fall prey to a type of intimacy that gradually degrades not only the brain, but it degrades the meaning of friendship.

Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic.

You are someone without me. You are someone good, strong, unique. It's not too late for you. You have friends, even if it doesn't feel like it. Don't trash yourself or others. You can be kind, thoughtful and wise. There's hope for you. Have faith, don't panic, stay healthy, be kind.