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0444269 Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. Chuck Palahniuk
4497039 Everything they believed in turned out to be wrong. Chuck Palahniuk
5807b84 Ten years ago, he was the hardworking salt of the earth. All he wanted was to go to Heaven. Sitting here today, everything that he worked for in the world is lost. All his external rules and controls are gone. Chuck Palahniuk
91be0b8 Every last minute of my life has been preordained, and I'm sick and tired of it. Chuck Palahniuk
df870a1 I don't expect you to understand," Adam says. "You're still the eight- year- old sitting in school, sitting in church, believing everything you're told. You remember pictures in books. They planned how you'd live your whole life. You're still asleep." Chuck Palahniuk
e2e5e52 According to the agent, the secret to getting famous is you just keep saying yes. Chuck Palahniuk
92219d5 Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people. pygmy quote smart Chuck Palahniuk
205f095 Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act. Chuck Palahniuk
ef1e90c Not that I'm crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn't the end. Chuck Palahniuk
c4501cb Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? 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. Chuck Palahniuk
1de39eb This is your life and its ending one minute at a time. Chuck Palahniuk
8f733ea Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Chuck Palahniuk
1950948 How could you let me love something that was going to die? Chuck Palahniuk
3075c81 The secret is to not let your imagination get carried away. Chuck Palahniuk
753d307 All these stupid rocks," I say, "what's your goal?" "This isn't about getting something done," Denny says. "It's about the doing, you know, the process." "But what are you going to do with all these rocks?" And Denny says, "I don't know until I collect enough." "But what's enough?" I say. "I don't know, dude," Denny says, "I just want the days of my life to add up to something." Chuck Palahniuk
c2386ee Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich cultural diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special-in actual, remaining no power. Chuck Palahniuk
5ede662 The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?" political Chuck Palahniuk
c5d4d92 Still screaming. As if the stars give a shit. Chuck Palahniuk
4df56a1 It's nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I've made of my life. Right or wrong, it follows no great master plan. All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. Chuck Palahniuk
0d6e8c2 Power, money, food, sex, love. Can we ever get enough, or will getting some make us crave even more? Chuck Palahniuk
704d82f The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason. This is the half people perceive as their personal identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of reality. The right side of your brain is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist,. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of the left half o.. Chuck Palahniuk
35ee351 Bana su boktan dunyada aynen gorundugu gibi olan tek bir sey ver. Flas! Chuck Palahniuk
0249905 jorj orueli c`deboda. didi z'ma t`valqurs ki ar gadevnebs, is c`ekvavs da mg'eris, mas boc`vrebi amohqavs jadosnuri k`udidan. qovelt`vis, roc`a ar gz'inavs, didi z'ma gart`obs, quradg'ebas gip`antavs, qvelap`ers aket`ebs imisat`vis, rom mt`lianad iqo sht`ant`k`muli da ar ip`ik`ro. is qvelap`ers aket`ebs imisat`vis, rom carmosaxvis unari gagik`ros, da ik`amde ar mogeshveba, vidre mas brma naclavivit` usargeblod ar gik`c`evs. didi z'ma t`valq.. Chuck Palahniuk
6be44a0 The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction. Chuck Palahniuk
4097c37 Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk
bd185f2 In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step--usually the pogo--and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick. Chuck Palahniuk
8b0b70d More and more, for the stupid little kid, that was the idea . . . That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again. That if someday you were caught, exposed, and revealed enough, then you'd never be able to hide again. There'd be no difference between your public and your private lives. That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat .. Chuck Palahniuk
eed3b70 You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Chuck Palahniuk
6160622 And I say no. The problem is the light, the dim light down here. Cupped in the palm of my hand, the cyanide and the wood pill, I can't tell which is which. What's sex and what's death--I can't tell the difference. I ask which one to give her. And Mr. Bacardi leans in to look, both of us breathing hot, damp air into my open hand. Chuck Palahniuk
3a0550e Slang is the writer's palette of colors. Chuck Palahniuk
5300890 All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering. Chuck Palahniuk
600820a So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. Chuck Palahniuk
695e3dd Insan sevdiklerini oldurur diye bir soz vardir ya; aslinda bakin insani olduren de hep sevdigidir. Chuck Palahniuk
13d8c99 Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses. Chuck Palahniuk
2f9c00c The fish is something to make me settle in one place. According to church colony doctrine, it's why men marry women and why women have children. It's something to live your life around. Chuck Palahniuk
5d78e24 Hero" isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind." Chuck Palahniuk
bb04eb3 Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. Chuck Palahniuk
6f01e7e Give me anger. Flash. Give me vengeance. Flash. Give me total and complete justified retribution. Flash. Chuck Palahniuk
d553d40 You can probably make them do anything for you: Sell people things they don't need; make women who don't know you fall in love with you. Vance Packard
f640e36 I feel all the same things when I do things alone as when Ole Golly was here. The bath feels hot, the bed feels soft, but I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach. Louise Fitzhugh
e5b228c Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?' 'You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.' 'Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town. writing Louise Fitzhugh
4e05727 If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler. bully comment dictator hitler lady rude Louise Fitzhugh
e6f0e9f Then he slept, and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal, and cold. Ian Fleming
68998ec If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves. success Ian Fleming