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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 32ad5b8 | The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. -- CHUCK PALAHNIUK | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2ad21a5 | In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f26f02b | You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| bb5dbd8 | People accepted the worst from each other, screaming and slapping. Divorce and abortion were never a plot option. If this was love or just inertia, Misty couldn't tell. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e0d1f0c | You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| dba01b1 | There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6fba786 | The first week I was here, a girl got canned for humming an Erasure song while she was churning butter. It's like, yeah, Erasure is historic, but not historic enough. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 01d5563 | The slogan for America is 'Not Good Enough'. Nothing's ever fast enough. Nothing's big enough. We're never satisfied. We're always improving... | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| dee14d1 | Maybe self-destruction is the answer. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 13b3630 | Since boyhood, fury had become his father. His older brother. His only protector. Fury gave him strength and courage and spurred him to always move forward despite always getting things wrong and always failing and no mentor there to help him or teach him and everyone always laughing. Anger delivered him from catastrophe. Rage kept him from going under. It had come to be his greatest asset and only strategy. | fury rage | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| fac7438 | Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of v.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c929444 | The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6583536 | Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 45759af | It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not all right that they also gambled with mine: They placed their bets with such self-rightous bravado, but I'm the one who lost. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0656f5e | Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| efc6928 | She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time. The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages. | satire | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 45ee484 | Life is short. Death is forever. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3e547ac | Do something only for money, and you're less likely to do it for free | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8eecc01 | Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose | loss | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a59efc4 | What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven. | hell hell-on-earth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 3893fa0 | Time legitimizes the outrageous. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0231276 | Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them. | god inheritance | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 26239e0 | Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 449653f | Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are | teenagers | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| ad75fd0 | The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 556a6dd | Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6338685 | Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties... | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b30e171 | She's seen it, pictured it, dreamed of it. She's wanted it so bad. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c61b7ea | She set them up on a date with their subconscious because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 670aba0 | The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| eb40d1e | To anyone reading this who isn't already dead, I wish you luck, honestly I do. You just keep swallowing your vitamins. Keep jogging around reservoirs and avoiding second hand cigarette smoke. Cross your fingers! Maybe death won't happen to you. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fef72f0 | If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." | chuck palahniuk | ||
| 98f3ddf | And I want Seth dead. Worse than dead, I want him fat and bloated with water and insecure and emotional. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6e8d2d5 | because the rubber, too, is bulletproof. And so relentless is the wind that it rakes the street, pushing along this burden of crippled vermin, trundling this tide of suffering always in the wake of the Town Car as it reaches Spaulding Square. Fissures of lightning | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2c6ef38 | And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know how to be, how to feel like, Charlotte? Were you some particular person only because people recognized you as that? | identity young-adult | Penelope Farmer | |
| 01204e8 | It was tied with a Windsor knot. Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond decided to forget his prejudice. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 1287ddb | He sensed a lonely childhood on some great decaying plantation, an echoing 'Great House' slowly falling into disrepair and being encroached on by the luxuriance of the tropics. The parents dying, and the property being sold. The companionship of a servant or two and an equivocal life in lodgings in the capital. The beauty which was her only asset and the struggle against the shady propositions to be a 'governess', a 'companion', a 'secretar.. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 82a1580 | Was it true what The Big Man had said, that she would have nothing to do with men? He doubted it. She seemed open to love and to desire. At any rate he knew she was not closed to him. He wanted her to come back and sit down opposite him again so that he could look at her and play with her and slowly discover her. Solitaire. It was an attractive name. No wonder they had christened her that in the sleazy nightclubs of Port au Prince. Even in .. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 6d3981a | Bond's car was his only personal hobby. One of the last of the 4 1/2-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers, he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war. It was still serviced every year and, in London, a former Bentley mechanic, who worked in a garage near Bond's Chelsea flat, tended it with jealous care. | Ian Fleming | ||
| b1964fd | Clusters of bats hung like bunches of withered grapes from the roof and when, from time to time, either Kerim's head or Bond's brushed against them, they exploded twittering into the darkness. | darkness tunnel | Ian Fleming | |
| b90503c | Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 499af3b | Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 323f82d | You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs. Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother's womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world. | Ian Fleming | ||
| 0a57839 | Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper. | quaker | Ian Fleming |