“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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“Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.”
― P.C. Cast, quote from Goddess of the Sea
“You've made her so beautiful; when she's come to take your life away.”
― Joan D. Vinge, quote from The Snow Queen
“EMILY SPARKS
Dov'è il mio bambino, il mio bambino -
in quale remota parte del mondo?
il bambino che a scuola amavo più di tutti?-
Io, la maestra, la vecchia zitella, il vergine cuore,
che li sentivo tutti miei figli.
M'ingannai col mio bambino
a giudicarlo uno spirito ardente,
attivo, mai pago?
Oh bambino, bambino, per cui pregai e pregai
in tante ore di veglia la notte,
ricordi la lettera che ti scrissi
sulla bellezza dell'amore di Cristo?
E che tu che l'abbia ricevuta o no,
bambino mio, dovunque tu sia,
opera per la salvezza dell'anima tua,
che tutto il fango, tutta la feccia in te,
ceda finalmente al fuoco che è in te,
finché il fuoco sia solo luce!...
Solo luce!”
― Edgar Lee Masters, quote from Spoon River Anthology
“If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from The Pillars of Creation
“You seemed, in your power, as free as man can be. But at what cost? What made you free? And I... I was made, moulded like clay, by the will of the women serving the Old Powers, or serving the men who made all services and ways and places, I no longer know which. Then I went free, with you, for a moment, and with Ogion. But it was not my freedom. Only it gave me a choice; and I chose. I chose to mould myself like clay to the use of a farm and a farmer and our children. I made myself a vessel. I know its shape. But not the clay. Life danced me. I know the dances. But I don't know who the dancer is.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from Tehanu
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Hard Rain Falling
In Real Life: My Jou...
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The Cricket on the H...
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