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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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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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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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For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.
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The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
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Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.
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Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
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All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.
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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
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I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
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The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
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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
Chuck Palahniuk
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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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