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You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs. Other events--the ones you can't digest--they poison you. Those worst parts of your life, those moments you can't talk about, they rot you from the inside out. Until you're Cassandra's wet shadow on the groun..
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Now," those Plumbago lips say, "You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story over and over. Tell me your sad-assed story all night." That Brandy queen points a long bony finger at me. "When you understand, " Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can crumble it up and throw your past in ..
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Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.
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Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't recognize this function, they still practice the exercise. Rant also saw how resolving the illusions is crucial to how the child uses any new skills. A child who is never coached with Santa Claus may never develop an ability to imagine. To him, nothing exists except the literal and tangible. A child ..
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.
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Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist.
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All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the previous culture had worshipped. The Jews attacked Belial, the god of the Babylonians. The Christians banished Pan and Loki anda Mars, the respective deities of the ancient Greeks and Celts and Rom..
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I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
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Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depres..
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Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.
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I would pay snakes to bite her.
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The more things you own, the more they own you.
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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
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Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
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Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.
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Tell the world what scares you the most" says Brandy. She gives us each an Aubergine Dreams eyebrow pencil and says "Save the world with some advice from the future" Seth writes on the back of a card and hands the card to Brandy for her to read. On game shows, Brandy reads, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair." Brandy puts a big Plumbago kiss in the little square for the stamp and lets ..
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Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.
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There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
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After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
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More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things. Only end them.
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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
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You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
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You know that old phrase 'Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it'? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
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Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?
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The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
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I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.
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Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only ta..
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Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.
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This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.
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Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.
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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
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I fainted....and you ate my ass? You fed me my own ass?
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The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.
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No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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