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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 742a71e | She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell. | Ann Patchett | ||
| f8cfad4 | The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page. | Ann Patchett | ||
| cbc9750 | A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart." -- Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction" | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2194df5 | This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6e35b7e | The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun. | power | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4aee683 | Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f514f8d | When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0ed693a | The first step to eternal life is you have to die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 68b31f5 | A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c1c14b4 | I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 82fd6a1 | You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home. | life reality truth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 5a100e0 | I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3de76fb | What stops you here is what stops your entire life." The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6360027 | My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c196a35 | 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 and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 438ce63 | I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| df7eb69 | We see what we want. We see how we want. We only see ourselves. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f9fc6fe | It's eerie, but what's happening is the folks are staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor, on and on, completely trapped in a reality loop that never ends. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8389377 | Imagine a plague you catch through your ears. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aef0013 | What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 019637c | Don't ask me when because I don't remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ac53d3d | No matter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e0bf9d3 | Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1edde58 | Everything you remember is wrong. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 51c1ec0 | When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ae1015c | My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 57b8f5c | Ole Golly: The time has come, the walrus said... Harriet M. Welsch: To talk of many things... Ole Golly: Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax... Harriet M. Welsch: Of cabbages and kings... Ole Golly: And why the sea is boiling hot... Harriet M. Welsch: And whether pigs have wings! | Louise Fitzhugh | ||
| 6f5ab35 | In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 4bf1898 | He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. | spy | Ian Fleming | |
| 918d274 | I wish I knew when I was going to die,' ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, 'I wish I knew.' 'Why, Dame?' 'Then I should know what to read next. | Rumer Godden | ||
| 6bbc9ff | Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin. | pessimism posterity the-future | P.D. James | |
| 72623a7 | It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air." | extinction world | P.D. James | |
| cc7332b | The Romulans may rip this base in half, pal. They may even kill me. But I'll be damned if they're going to keep me from enjoying a refreshing beverage. | Michael Jan Friedman | ||
| c000f4c | All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 15daac3 | Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were. | fads history sugar sweet-tooth why-tanning-is-stupid | Bill Bryson | |
| bec1fd0 | In this he was like most Midwesterners. Directions are very important to them. They have an innate need to be oriented, even in their anecdotes. Any story related by a Midwesterner will wander off at some point into a thicket of interior monologue along the lines of "We were staying at a hotel that was eight blocks northeast of the state capital building. Come to think of it, it was northwest. And I think it was probably more like nine bloc.. | midwesterners | Bill Bryson | |
| c111029 | It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before. | renewal | Bill Bryson | |
| f145098 | On the morning of our second day, we were strolling down the Champs-Elysees when a bird shit on his head. 'Did you know a bird's shit on your head?' I asked a block or two later. Instinctively Katz put a hand to his head, looked at it in horror - he was always something of a sissy where excrement was concerned; I once saw him running through Greenwood Park in Des Moines like the figure in Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' just because he had inad.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| ef44faa | Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. It is stable and peaceful and good. It doesn't need watching, and so we don't. But I will tell you this: the loss is entirely ours. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 7060ce1 | Cavendish is a book in himself. Born into a life of sumptuous privilege- his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent- he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." Any human contact was for him a source of the deepest discomfort. Once he opened his door to find an Austrian admirer, f.. | shy shyness | Bill Bryson | |
| 8d29ca2 | To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 1e6e78d | I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell. | anti-theism god injustice | Dan Simmons | |
| 90ce306 | Do you think it's ready?" I [Silenus, The Poet] asked. "It's perfect... a masterpiece." "Do you think it'll sell?" I asked. "No fucking way." | Dan Simmons | ||
| 73e3c6d | Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections. | E.L. Konigsburg |