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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
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May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
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She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
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If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.
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What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
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My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.
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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
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Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.
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That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.
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Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.
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suicide
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Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
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It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.
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A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.
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no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.
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Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you wor..
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I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.
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The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU."
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So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version.
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Inside the hole, the red lips say, "we all grew up with the same television shows. It's like we all have the same artificial memory implants. We remember almost none of our real childhoods, but we remember everything that happened to sitcom families. We have the same basic goals. We all have the same fears." The lips say, "The future is not bright."
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I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most yo..
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The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.
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As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?
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You're training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
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No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake
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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
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Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.
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During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dre..
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If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time.
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I'm in love. So kill me.
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The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete."
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If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel. And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule.
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Our way of getting nostalgic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all because we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, reinvent ourselves. Adapt.
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't s..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The only thing I know is everything you love will die.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?" she says."
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