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The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
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Most everything else I know is from the messes these people leave behind.
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Call me the voice of experience.
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Brandy says, "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
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Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive....My regular little dress rehearsal...the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.
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On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
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The mistakes we make in our youth," she said solemnly, "we pay for with the rest of our lives."
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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She'd never trusted her own natural impulses and instincts Among her greatest fears was the possibility that she might never discover and develop her deepest talents and intuitions. Her special gifts. Her life would be wasted in pursuing the goals set for her by other people. Instead, she wanted to reclaim a power and authority - a primitive, irresistible force - that transcended gender roles. She dreamed of wielding a raw magic that predat..
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The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God's most selfish children would steal God's greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death. This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick. Only God has the righ..
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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.
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Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.
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Walter from Microsoft catches my eye. Here's a young guy with perfect teeth and clear skin and the kind of job you bother to write the alumni magazine about getting. You know he was too young to fight in any wars, and if his parents weren't divorced, his father was never home, and here he's looking at me with half my face clean shaved and half a leering bruise hidden in the dark. Blood shining on my lips. And maybe Walter's thinking about a..
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Anonymity is the new fame.
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People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: Esprit de l'escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party... As you start down the stairway, then -- magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The p..
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Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.
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This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
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Neka nikoga ne b'da zav'rshen. Neka nikoga ne b'da dovolen. Neka nikoga ne b'da s'v'rshen.
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The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
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What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.
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A happy past cripples people. They cling to it with nowhere better to go. Nothing to improve upon.
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To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.
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For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.
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In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.
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If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't.
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected. "It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything."
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We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one. None of that is bad. It's just the way human beings operate.
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Old George Orwell got it backward.Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.And this being fed, it's worse than bei..
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La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla del Club de la lucha es: NADIE habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La tercera regla es: la pelea termina cuando uno de los contendientes grita <>, pierde la vertical o hace una senal. La cuarta regla: solo dos personas por pelea. La quinta regla: solo una pelea a la vez. La sexta regla: se pelea sin camisa y sin zapatos. La septima regla: ca..
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With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
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Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?
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The truth is nobody here is as stupid or evil as I let on. Except me.
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Give me a complete late-stage revision of my adult life. Flash. Give me anything in this whole fucking world that is exactly what it looks like! Flash.
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Mozhe bi chovek ne otiva v ada za onova, koeto e storil, kazva glas't v glavata mi. Mozhe bi otivash v ada zaradi tova, koeto ne si napravil. Za neshchata, koito ne si dovel dokrai.
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WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference?
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actual happiness only happens by accident
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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out, but your heart's still racing and your thoughts tornado in your head. Nothing works. Not guided meditation. You're in Ireland. Not counting sheep. You count up the days, hours, minutes since you can remember falling asleep.
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Grace says, "We all die." She says, "The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will." --
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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El futuro que tendras manana no es el mismo futuro que tenias ayer.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I stepped into the back of a cab and simply told the driver, "Follow the blue Christmas tree..."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.
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