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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people........
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I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
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mortality
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I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions, because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
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If you're going to read this, don't bother.
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opening-lines
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You can't fool people into loving you.
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Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.
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There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.
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When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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suicide
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Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it. How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. ... The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big even..
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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
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snuff
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parent
mother
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No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.
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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
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sleep
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A book is as private and consensual as sex.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I am Jack's smirking revenge.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Maybe we should always assume the worst.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You always kill the one you love.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villians or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. But we still sit here, waiting to be saved. While we're still victims, hoping to be discovered while we suffer.
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I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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What would Tyler Durden do?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
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hurry
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Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value.Imagine traveling the world until you're bored with every square inch. Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played ..
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Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.
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family
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The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
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living
motivation
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Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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trees
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For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, 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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fight
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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You have to keep recycling yourself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we'll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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