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Give me patience. Flash. Give me control. Flash.
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If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf would still be alive.
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You take enough blasting gelatin and wrap the foundation columns of anything, you can topple any building in the world. You have to tamp it good and tight with sandbags so the blast goes against the column and not out into the parking garage around the column. This how-to stuff isn't in any history book.
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Niakoi tv'rdiat, che znanieto e vlast.
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At home, you'll sometimes wake up in your dark bed with the terror you've fallen asleep in the booth and missed a changeover.
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People in love--with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents--they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success.
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Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. And I used to be such a nice guy.
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We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I have no native tongue.
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The pinup girl, Betty Grable, sprayed her bare butt and breasts with hairspray until they were wet. That way the top and bottom of her swimsuit stayed glued where she wanted. Hairspray inside your high heels works the same way.
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It turns out, my suitcase was vibrating on departure from Dulles, according to the security task force guy, so the police took it off the flight. Everything was in that bag. My contact lens stuff. One red tie with blue strips. One blue tie with red stripes. These are regimental stripes, not club tie stripes. And one solid red tie.
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But Rachel knows this isn't true. Nobody can stop anything. The people will always be humping next door. The burning cat will always be rocketing like a comet around every house in which they ever live. Nothing will ever be resolved.
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In the sky overhead, it's the same sun watching us make the same mistakes over and over. It's the same blue sky..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun."
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Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashion Victim.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing.
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I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jetliner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a sotry now. Her'es the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautiful..
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But someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Just another stupid moment people have to make last forever.
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You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger.
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better.
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Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest?
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Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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Nuestra generacion no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros si que estamos librando una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolucion contra la cultura. La gran crisis esta en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espiritual.
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cultura
el-club-de-la-lucha
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Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If you won't share my life with me, maybe you'll share my death.
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I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.
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I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jet-liner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a story now. Here's the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautifu..
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She tries to not ask, to stop asking, but the effort is like trying to un-pop a balloon.
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sr lbq `l~ lqm@ hw 'l tmthl mSdr thdyd,'n tkwn l shy',msH@ frG@ yml'h lns Hsb hwhm,'n tkwn mra@.
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individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich culture diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special--in actual, remaining no power. Only when wedded to state purpose grants the citizen actual power. State mission and plan creates ..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Death is the One Big Mistake that none of us EVER plans to make.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Edition to edition, the symptoms change. Sane people are insane by a new standard. People who used to be called insane are the picture of perfect mental health.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
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Who you are moment to moment is just a story.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J"
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You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.
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