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Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
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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.
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
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Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
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Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
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This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
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Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
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The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
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People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.
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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
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Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
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Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
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Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.
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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
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If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.
In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
February 21, 1962
(age 62)
Bio:
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
Known for:
Fight Club (1996)
Invisible Monsters (1999)
Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (2007)
Survivor (1999)
Damned (2011)
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