“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. ”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“How you're still always trapped.
How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Diary
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“Under his buckskin riding-coat he wore a black vest and the cravat and collar of a churchman. A young priest, at his devotions; and a priest in a thousand, one knew at a glance. His bowed head was not that of an ordinary man,—it was built for the seat of a fine intelligence. His brow was open, generous, reflective, his features handsome and somewhat severe. There was a singular elegance about the hands below the fringed cuffs of the buckskin jacket. Everything showed him to be a man of gentle birth—brave, sensitive, courteous. His manners, even when he was alone in the desert, were distinguished. He had a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before which he knelt, and the God whom he was addressing.”
― Willa Cather, quote from Death Comes for the Archbishop
“Always I hev my fists and my war pipes!”
― Rachel Hartman, quote from Seraphina
“One often feels as though something had happened before, I remember. It comes quite close to you and stands there and you know it was just this way once before, exactly so; for an instant you almost know how it must go on, but then it disappears as you try to lay hold of it like smoke or a dead memory. "We could never remember, Isabelle," I say. "It's like the rain. That has also become one, out of two gasses, oxygen and hydrogen, which no longer remember they were once gasses. Now they are only rain and have no memory of an earlier time.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Black Obelisk
“Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?"
"I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her."
"Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
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