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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 67a1447 | Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead. | truth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 6870918 | this is the upside of already being eternally damned | survivor | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 5fc7e51 | The damaged love the damaged. True fact. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 73833e0 | I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world. You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid ad bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a2cdb56 | How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 320ad03 | Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 661a182 | No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should have been paying attention. Well get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel like someday. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7e78427 | A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 12837b6 | It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4c05e0a | Everything is still falling apart. | falling-apart | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8107ad2 | Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bb80b47 | With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 90a8a57 | She's so thin she's either dying or rich. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3eab5c1 | The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience. | life living participate truth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| e23e769 | At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English." | Bill Bryson | ||
| a97bb82 | There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances. | feeling-better self-esteem | Noel Streatfeild | |
| 20b828b | Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blin.. | life | P.D. James | |
| 13b7547 | When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 4435179 | The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and the saddest you've ever been in your whole life...Think about it it. Have you ever been happier than right now, lying here in the grass? And have you ever been sadder? It isn't like that for everyone. Some people just g.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 48f62b5 | Like most music that affects me deeply, I would never listen to it while others were around, just as I would not pass on a book that I especially loved to another. I am embarrassed to admit this, knowing that it reveals some essential lack or selfishness in my nature, and aware that it runs contrary to the instincts of most, whose passion for something leads them to want to share it, to ignite a similar passion in others, and that without t.. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 5901169 | He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 48cc070 | In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 7e9054c | Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it's a battleground. | taxonomy | Bill Bryson | |
| 0866ca1 | Ibn al-Arabi gave this advice: Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest; otherwise you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not limited by any one creed, for he says, 'Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah' (Koran 2:109). Everyone praises what he believes; his god is his own creature, and.. | ibn-al-arabi | Karen Armstrong | |
| 6640672 | We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God's wide domain would carry the memory of you, Fanny, dust these nine hundred years, and all.. | Dan Simmons | ||
| 0fc2b5d | It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible to keep. The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart. A game of baseball can't really make a summer day last forever. A home run can't really heal all the broken places in our world, or in a single human heart. And there was no way that Mr. Feld could keep his p.. | fatherhood summerland | Michael Chabon | |
| c64e874 | Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a tower window, an act of hopeless optimism in the service of bottomless longing. Every great record or novel or comic book convenes the first meeting of a fan club whose membership stands forever at one but which maintains chapters in every city -- in every cranium -- in the world. Art, like fandom, asserts the possibility of.. | Michael Chabon | ||
| 1c9387f | I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it. | Max Lucado | ||
| 4acfb6b | Men cheat because it's in their genetic code. A woman does it because she doesn't have enough dignity; in addition to handing over her body, she always ends up handing over a bit of her heart. A true crime. A theft. It's worse than robbing a bank, because if one day she is discovered (and she always is), she will cause irreparable damage to her family. For men it is just a "stupid mistake." For women, it feels like a spiritual crime against.. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 97e1a58 | The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 2b175cd | d` mn Hwlk ynmwn m`k | ألف paulo-coelho | باولو كويلو | |
| 0023a6d | Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 4df68cf | No matter how you are feeling, get up every morning and prepare to let your light shine forth. | work-ethic | Paulo Coelho | |
| 304c523 | Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 841b19b | These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c73add3 | Scars are medals branded on the flesh, and your enemies will be frightened by them because they are proof of your long experience of battle. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| c2c94e5 | Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 0e7e96a | The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 6e725db | Freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that smile is dimmed with tears. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 26918fb | What is outside is harder to change than what is inside. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| fe19226 | Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. | Paulo Coelho | ||
| 8d79889 | Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanit.. | achievement death life work | Paulo Coelho | |
| 7ea908a | She asks him to touch her, to feel her with his hands, because bodies always understand each other, even when souls do not. | paulo-coelho | Paulo Coelho | |
| 15005e7 | But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best." | life motivational | Paulo Coelho |