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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.
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You can guess this is how men have been handling Eva's hostility for her whole life. Just distract her. Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
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If there's any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.
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His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.
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oral-sex
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It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
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Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
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You can say anything if enough people will listen.
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Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
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shame
memory
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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
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Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.
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Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted
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snuff
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These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.
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We wanted to blast the world free of history.... picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and every evening what's left of mankind w..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
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miracle
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Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.
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It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
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living
life
construction
importance-of-existence
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With every lecture, you're forced to look again at every choice you've made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.
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They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so--bad.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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fear
rejection
evil
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It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.
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Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
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humor
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?
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Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.
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phoenix
stealing
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How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe God's hate is better than His indifference. If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention. Unless we get God's attention, we have no hope of damnation or redemption. Which is worse, ..
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Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Losing all hope was freedom.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time."
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So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.
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No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.
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