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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 081b8c2 | I was stopped by security guards in four buildings today. I showed my ID, was told I could go up, and then I was stopped by a second guard at the elevator who told me I couldn't go up." Fode nodded with appreciation. "This is most impressive for a white man." | Ann Patchett | ||
| 2a63006 | They didn't account for Lucy, only for her face. And maybe they couldn't. She was too huge for casual consideration. But how can you operate on the face without understanding what the face means to the girl? How can the meaning of kissing, swallowing, speaking, be completely ignored in favor of mechanics? | Ann Patchett | ||
| 6351736 | the story of his day. "Americans love the idea of vaccinating Africans. What could be nicer than a photograph of dusty little Nigerian children lined up for inoculation on the front page of the New York Times? But for their own children the mothers of New York City find vaccinations passe. They say the vaccination is not sufficiently natural, that it could possibly cause something worse than it could prevent. I have spent the day trying to .. | Ann Patchett | ||
| ff546ab | But sooner or later you have to do something. If you think you're going to find one thing that will be perfect for you, you're going to spend your eightieth birthday reading the want ads. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 621183f | he had found her life meaningful when she could make no sense of it at all. | Ann Patchett | ||
| 2bad15e | my pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams. | pride | Günter Grass | |
| 6b3dfc4 | All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1ea704c | Me, I'm a bloody tissue sample dried on a bare mattress in my room at the Paper Street Soap Company. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c596812 | How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 73aecbb | What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 963a14f | Si no entiendes algo, puedes hacer que signifique cualquier cosa. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| dab8e7f | My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cdcf235 | What I do know is I've got a brain filled with jokes I can't forget - like a tumor the size of a grapefruit inside of my skull. And I know that eventually even dog shit turns white and stops stinking, but I have this permanent head filled with crap I've been trained my whole life to think is funny. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| efbef2b | If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1018a90 | Es muy duro olvidar el dolor, pero es mas duro todavia recordar la dulzura. La felicidad no nos deja cicatrices. Apenas aprendemos nada de la paz. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 295bcb5 | These dudes, clutching their little gifts, for them today is their kind-of-honeymoon. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| b465f9e | By that she means fully erect. Condom-ready. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4406266 | The first time I read 'Guts', nobody fainted. My goal was just to write some new form of horror story, something based on the ordinary world. Without supernatural monster or magic. The would be a book you wouldn't want to keep next to your bed. A book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power. A motion picture, or music, or television, .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4e82928 | You realize it's not wooden stakes that kill vampires. It's all the emotional baggage and letdowns they have to carry around for century after century. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a99cb65 | Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3646927 | The first rule of film club is you don't talk about Rosebud. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 703a474 | By the middle of the novel I decided that what two people don't say to each other forges a stronger bond than honest. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3f64fbc | And the moment she says hello, I wouldn't hang up. I'd say, 'Hi. What's happening? Tell me every little thing. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9d10734 | His eyes the bright brown of July Fourth sunlight through a tall mug of root beer. Quite the American specimen. A classic face of such symmetrical proportions, the exactly balanced type of face one dreams of looking down to find smiling and eager between one's inner thighs. Still, that's the trouble with only a single glance at any star on the horizon. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2ec60d9 | The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5504d2b | Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball. Just say no. | celibacy humor no | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 2c497c1 | I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo." "Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?" | humorous writing | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| dba6326 | Don't take this the wrong way, okay?" She chuckled grimly. "My idea of Hell would be going to Heaven and being forced to pretend I'm like you for the rest of eternity." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 27aeb3f | As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You're not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday. This time, the oncoming car swerves, but the mechanic swerves hack into its path. The car swerves, and the mechanic matches it, h.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c94d255 | And I used to be such a nice person. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c62f29d | La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demas... | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| cdc07d2 | Sen de en az bir araba kadar urunsun. Bir urunun, urununun, urunu. Arabalari dizayn eden adamlar da birer urun. Senin ailen bir urun. Onlarin ailesi de birer urundu. Ogretmenlerin, urun. Kilisedeki papaz, baska bir urun. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6da051b | The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| a10ceb7 | Every place is the same place in the dark. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| acc3c03 | Art never comes from happiness | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1b861d7 | Away from the receiver, he says, "Leslie, wake up, we're being hate-crimed finally." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3527cee | I'm thirteen years old, and I'm somewhat overweight. Meaning: I'm dead and fat. Meaning: I'm a piggy-pig-pig, oink-oink, real porker. Just ask my mom. I'm thirteen and fat - and I will stay this way forever. And yes, I know the word ulcerate. I'm dead, not illiterate. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 23bd733 | Bu omur boyu sahip oldugum alti yuz kirk birinci balik. Tanri'nin yarattigi baska bir canliya bakmayi ve sevmeyi ogrenmem icin ailem yillar once ilk baligimi almisti. Sahip oldugum alti yuz kirk baliktan sonra ogrendigim tek sey, insanin sevdigi her seyin bir gun olecegi oldu. O ozel kisiyle karsilastigin ilk anda, onun bir gun olup topragin altina girecegine emin olabilirsin... ... Gercek, parlayip isik sacmaz. ... Oyle sikici isler vardi.. | survivor tender-branson | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 16323c6 | Shot Dunyun: No bullshit, but I never leave the house without a mix for anything: Falling in love. Witnessing a death. Disappointment. Impatience. Traffic. I carry a mix for any human condition. Anything really good or bad happens to me, and my way not to overreact--like, to distance my emotions--is to locate the exact perfect sound track for that moment. Even the night Rant died, my automatic first thought was: Philip Glass's Violin Concer.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 78695ed | Nuestro deber es ensenar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a traves de la esclavitud; y el coraje a traves del miedo. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d5ef44f | She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8811d2a | If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds with the cyanide to produce less toxic compounds. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 99a2fba | It seemed like that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 80593bb | In the book Miss Rona, copyright 1974," Brandy says, "Rona Barrett--who got her enormous breasts when she was nine years old and wanted to cut them off with scissors--she tells us in the prologue of her book that she's like this animal, cut open with all its vital organs glistening and quivering, you know, like the liver and the large intestine. Such visuals, everything sort of dripping and pulsating. Anyway, she could wait for someone to s.. | Chuck Palahniuk |