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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b264aca | 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. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 46661ea | You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 928fbde | About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bd129f6 | Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 79e5b50 | Walter from Microsoft catches my eye. Here's a young guy with perfect teeth and clear skin and the kind of job you bother to write the alumni magazine about getting. You know he was too young to fight in any wars, and if his parents weren't divorced, his father was never home, and here he's looking at me with half my face clean shaved and half a leering bruise hidden in the dark. Blood shining on my lips. And maybe Walter's thinking about a.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 56516ed | Anonymity is the new fame. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4a0d617 | People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: Esprit de l'escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer, but it's too late. Say you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party... As you start down the stairway, then -- magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The p.. | esprit-de-l-escalier french guts spirit-of-the-stairway staircase stairway | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 1e048ad | Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d9f61f6 | This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8f5395a | Neka nikoga ne b'da zav'rshen. Neka nikoga ne b'da dovolen. Neka nikoga ne b'da s'v'rshen. | fight-club | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 253f9e4 | The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a90c2c4 | What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling. | damned | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 555ed02 | A happy past cripples people. They cling to it with nowhere better to go. Nothing to improve upon. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0b0ced4 | To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard. | heard | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ede3996 | For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. | reality sex-addiction | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 6e19da7 | In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 13e6677 | If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 7526dc7 | Only after disaster can we be resurrected. "It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 831661d | We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one. None of that is bad. It's just the way human beings operate. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b87c56b | Old George Orwell got it backward.Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled.And this being fed, it's worse than bei.. | big-brother-is-watching | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 3e9071c |
La primera regla del Club de la lucha es: nadie habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La segunda regla del Club de la lucha es: NADIE habla sobre el Club de la lucha. La tercera regla es: la pelea termina cuando uno de los contendientes grita < |
español fight-club reglas spanish | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| e8678eb | With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 17347c8 | Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.' 'No? Spelt like Yes?' 'That's right. | doctor-no humor james-bond | Ian Fleming | |
| 7a29d71 | When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts. | Ian Fleming | ||
| d6c3f92 | Put that in your pipe and smoke it. | Ian Fleming | ||
| e6e1f67 | Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again. | drinking drugs | Ian Fleming | |
| cad0c85 | Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you? | Ian Fleming | ||
| 07fe4c8 | The great trains are going out all over Europe, one by one, but still, three times a week, the Orient Express thunders superbly over the 1,400 miles of glittering steel track between Istanbul and Paris. Under the arc-lights, the long-chassied German locomotive panted quietly with the labored breath of a dragon dying of asthma. Each heavy breath seemed certain to be the last. Then came another. | dragon locomotive orient-express train | Ian Fleming | |
| cea10d1 | What do you mean by sound government?' | politics | P.D. James | |
| 0dc5def | On the whole I'm glad; you can't mourn for unborn grandchildren when there never was a hope of them. This planet is doomed anyway. Eventually the sun will explode or cool and one small insignificant particle of the universe will disappear with only a tremble. If man is doomed to perish, then universal infertility is as painless a way as any. And there are, after all, personal compensations. For the last sixty years we have sycophantically p.. | P.D. James | ||
| 35ecf57 | A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development. | P.D. James | ||
| bb6483d | Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified. | innocence | P.D. James | |
| 18cc996 | he began drinking heavily and lived in a way which a friend described as making sense "only if he had no expectations of being alive much beyond Thursday"." | P.D. James | ||
| 5ae588d | For heaven's sake, Darling, keep your crusading instinct [for social justice] under control...It's uncomfortable to live with especially for those of us who haven't got one. | P.D. James | ||
| f6f17cc | I've learned much from the land of many gods and many ways to worship. From Buddhism the power to begin to manage my mind, from Jainism the desire to make peace in all aspects of life, while Islam has taught me to desire goodness and to let go of that which cannot be controlled. I thank Judaism for teaching me the power of transcendence in rituals and the Sufis for affirming my ability to find answers within and reconnecting me with the pow.. | spirituality | Sarah Macdonald | |
| df76e7c | It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 903a102 | I had the elated, otherworldly feeling I sometimes get entering the sphere of another's life, when for a moment changing my banal habits and living like seems entirely possible, a feeling that always dissolves by the next morning, when I wake up to the familiar, unmovable shapes of my own life. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 3065c14 | At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| 17af801 | Where he saw a page of words, his friend saw the field of hesitations, black holes, and possibilities between the words. Where his friend saw dappled light, the felicity of flight, the sadness of gravity, he saw the solid form of a common sparrow. | writing | Nicole Krauss | |
| a6198eb | our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| ba6654a | A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| fb7e94a | Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now. I wondered whether what I was experiencing was some sort of psychotic break, the sort that ambushes a person who until then has lived an ordinary life, auguring a new existence full of torment and struggle. | psychosis | Nicole Krauss | |
| 8324f8e | I filled the sink with soapy water and washed the dirty pots. And with each pot and pan, and spoon I put away,I also put away a thought I couldn't bear until my kitchen and my mind returned to a state of mutual organisation. | Nicole Krauss | ||
| cc9a8e5 | I was especially riveted by an amateur photograph in Herrero's book, taken late at night by a camper with a flash at a campground out West. The photograph caught four black bears as they puzzled over a suspended food bag. The bears were clearly startled but not remotely alarmed by the flash. It was not the size or demeanor of the bears that troubled me -- they looked almost comically unagressive, like four guys who had gotten a Frisbee caug.. | Bill Bryson |