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You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.
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The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...
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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
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What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
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She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
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Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
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All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that's all I did."
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We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.
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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
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This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
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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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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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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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