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The lucky ones are just born dead.
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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
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No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.
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Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
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Condoms ribbed for extrasensitivity. The last thing I need is extrasensitivity. Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours. This seems to really miss the point. I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
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Nothing is static.
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How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
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If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.
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What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
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Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
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truth
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this is the upside of already being eternally damned
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survivor
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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
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I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid ad bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.
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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.
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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should have been paying attention. Well get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel like someday.
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A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself."
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It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
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Everything is still falling apart.
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falling-apart
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Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it."
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.
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life
living
participate
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Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.
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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.
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The truth is that all this was just part of the suicide process. Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time. Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. If a tress falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot? And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would He be in ..
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You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?
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Daytime television, you can tell who's watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it's clinics for drying out drunks. Or it's law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it's schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you're watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You're a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.
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My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.
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A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection
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Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.
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hilarious
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Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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You've thrown down the gauntlet. You've brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But... If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist... then my existence will be g..
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damned
death
dying
heaven
hell
kill
life
living
master
murder
puppet
wrath
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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.
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I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel's face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That's the rule. If it's your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You decide your own level of involvement.
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cooperation
self-control
social-activism
tyler-durden
willpower
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Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.
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