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4dc785a
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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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palahniuk
narrator
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
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want
more
palahniuk
dissatisfaction
lullaby
consumerism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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305514e
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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life
medical-training
palahniuk
physicians
doctors
medicine
disease
waiting
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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035cb9d
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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
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dreams
education
intelligence
choke
lethargy
palahniuk
sloth
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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5fda45f
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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
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snuff
palahniuk
parent
mother
father
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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505db86
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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
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truth
born
born-here
choke
palahniuk
immigrant
immigration
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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3b22976
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Some people still think knowledge is power.
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palahniuk
knowledge
power
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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6cdd690
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...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.
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humor
flaw
palahniuk
dead
hell
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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61adee7
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In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
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masochism
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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cdab7f3
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Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password
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password
palahniuk
cleverness
programming
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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134b70f
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"Your dad was in a street gang?" My adopted dad was an accountant for a big Fortune 500 corporation. Him, me, and my adopted mom lived in the suburbs in an English Tudor house with a gigantic basement where he fiddled with model trains. The other dads were lawyers and research chemists, but they all ran model trains. Every weekend they could, they'd load into a family van and cruise into the city for research. Snapping pictures of gang members. Gang graffiti. Sex workers walking their tracks. Litter and pollution and homeless heroin addicts. All this, they'd study and bicker about, trying to outdo each other with the most realistic, the grittiest scenes of urban decay they could create in HO train scale in a subdivision basement"
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snuff
palahniuk
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chuck palahniuk |
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d1bbcf9
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"You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began composing after his right hand became paralyzed and ended his career as a concert pianist. (...) You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered her legs with bleeding sores. Lord Byron and his clubfoot. The Bronte sisters and their tuberculosis. Mark Rothko and his suicide. Flannery O'Connor and her lupus. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness. "According to Thomas Mann," Peter said, "'Great artists are great invalids."
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frida
palahniuk
michelangelo
nietzsche
mozart
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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0b94608
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I cross my fingers that if a demon dunks me in a vat of boiling lava I'll get thrown together naked with River Phoenix, and that he'll say I'm cute and try to kiss me.
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humor
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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4650ffc
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El futuro que tendras manana no es el mismo futuro que tenias ayer.
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rant
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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eb10675
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For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved? With all due respect. According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.
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religion
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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7336804
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Por mucha bendicion que haya, o talento, o tecnologia, siempre podemos encontrar la forma de cagarla
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rant
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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7c043d9
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Hay gente que nace humana. Al resto nos cuesta toda la vida conseguirlo.
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rant
palahniuk
vida
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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fb237fe
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Me encantaria creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiria todo el sufrimiento y la presion del mundo fisico. Pero tambien negaria el valor del dinero que tengo en el banco, de mi casa que no esta nada mal y de todo mi esfuerzo. Todos nuestros problemas y todo lo bueno que nos pasa podrian desdenarse simplemente porque no son mas reales que las escenas de un libro o una pelicula. Un mundo eterno e invisible convertiria el nuestro en una ilusion.
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stranger-than-fiction
palahniuk
essay
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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5987348
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Cada uno es su hobby favorito. Uno siempre es experto en uno mismo.
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rant
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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5edd634
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La historia no es mas que una sucesion de monstruos o de victimas. O de testigos.
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rant
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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988d56d
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En un mundo donde millones de personas creen que su deidad concibio un hijo mortal con una humana virgen, es asombrosa la poca imaginacion que muestra la mayoria de la gente.
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rant
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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e1a225e
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Le stelle in cielo Non conoscono l'ira Bla, bla, bla, fine
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stelle
palahniuk
quotes
nonsense
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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0309ce2
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>>Hay un tipo de mujeres y de hombres jovenes y fuertes que quieren dar su vida por una causa. La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempenado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan.
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tyler-durden
consumismo
crítica-social
palahniuk
realidad
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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8389afc
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A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.
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rant
palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk |