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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 4b408ef | No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b72f4e1 | I am helpless. I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things. My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage." This is how bad your life can get." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2c8b277 | Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 65011d7 | Suicide is very contagious. | suicide | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a0423b7 | No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life. | children parent parenting parents relationship snuff | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8bd09cd | The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9945df7 | This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0211971 | So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f798972 | A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| eac3f4d | Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bf2d206 | We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. | enslavement freedom frighten | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| f696a72 | It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it! | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0ad0527 | The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you'd be ruined. Overdosed on information. | religion | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4461240 | This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child to sleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 05253b7 | When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, a drunk, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ed8a732 | As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d4c3127 | People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3ca2716 | Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7540c2d | We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c6ad085 | I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6cdd690 | dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I. | dead flaw hell humor palahniuk | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 8b46a7b | Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining. | englishmen entertaining instructive national-character unrewarding | Ian Fleming | |
| 3d3cffc | The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 45e26ef | She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me. | rape sex | Ian Fleming | |
| 76c308e | I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. | humor humour love theo | P.D. James | |
| 991b6a6 | All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her choice. This is the age-long convention of the romantic novel, but with Jane Austen, what we have is Mills & Boon written by a genius. | romance-novels writing | P.D. James | |
| 3e53086 | Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been | Nicole Krauss | ||
| d16795d | He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying his brother, and how after that no one had bothered either of them again. 'You have to stick up for yourself,' he told me. 'But it's bad to throw rocks,' I said. 'I know. You're smarter than me. You'll find something better than rocks. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 422e05a | Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 55893e8 | And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| c334a1d | if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's s.. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 801bcc6 | Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 8d62e6d | Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven--corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats--account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors. | Bill Bryson | ||
| f0d87c8 | There's something satisfying, I think,' Evans said, 'about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it. It just seems right that an event of that magnitude should be witnessed. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 79bfcd4 | Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 17975ae | A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder. | hiking walking | Bill Bryson | |
| 1762304 | Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history. | Bill Bryson | ||
| d5a8a28 | It was an especially wonderful time to be a noisy moron. | Bill Bryson | ||
| 0df7e6d | I had failed to make a gift of myself to God. | religion | Karen Armstrong | |
| be01242 | Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 263f444 | Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again. | inspiration | Laura Dave | |
| 6e02c22 | All this natural misery," Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?" | Dan Simmons | ||
| 98093be | If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd." | immortality remeberance | Dan Simmons | |
| 1d781af | Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking. | E.L. Konigsburg |