# Quote — DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little

> You can only really be yourself when you have nothing left to lose, see? That's a learning I made. It may sound dumb, but it ain't easy when your dreams roll up. Take note, you can feel jerksville lurking in back. And as we know, just by thinking it, you suffer it worse. The learning: potential assholeness when a dream comes true is relative to the amount of time you spent working up the dream. . It means I could even fucken puke.

- Author: [DBC Pierre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre.md)
- Book: [Vernon God Little](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre/vernon-god-little.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vernon_God_Little#Act_III._Against_All_Odds) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre/vernon-god-little/you-can-only

## More from this book

> Fate always pays attention to what you think, then slams it up your fucken ass.

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> 'And here's the winning ticket,' says Gibbons. 'Green forty-seven!' A sluggish frenzy breaks through the tent. The kid stops, and drags a mangled pink ticket from his pocket. He squints at it, like it might turn fucken green.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre/vernon-god-little/and-heres-the.md)

> "We could turn your situation around three hundred and sixty degrees..."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dbc-pierre/vernon-god-little/we-could-turn.md)