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you're doomed at being you.
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Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?
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There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.
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This woman is Pocahontas. She is Athena and Hera. Lying in this messy, unmade bed, eyes closed, this is Juliet Capulet. Blanche DuBois. Scarlett O'Hara. With ministrations of lipstick and eyeliner I give birth to Ophelia. To Marie Antoinette. Over the next trip of the larger hand around the face of the bedside clock, I give form to Lucrezia Borgia. Taking shape at my fingertips, my touches of foundation and blush, here is Jocasta. Lying her..
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The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.
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The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.
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Self improvement is masturbation...
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Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells "stop!", goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as lon..
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I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
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love
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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
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born-here
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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.
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Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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life
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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
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men
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At this rate, we'll never get to the future.
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Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic."
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Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "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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Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all..
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What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
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We're all of us haunted and haunting.
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haunting
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That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.
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and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.
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Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
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We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
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Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.
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Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
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I mean, I'm just tired of being wrong all the time just because I'm a guy. I mean how many times can everybody tell you that you're the oppressive, prejudiced enemy before you give up and become the enemy. I mean a male, chauvinist pig isn't born, hes made, and more and more of them are being made by women. After long enough you just roll over and accept the fact that you're a sexist, bigoted, insensitive, crude, cretinist cretin. Women ar..
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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.
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The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
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Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it's mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.
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The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.
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Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
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I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .
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