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101 " The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Fight Club
102 " This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. "
103 " We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. "
104 " Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Lullaby
105 " The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery. "
106 " Here’s another big symbol,” she says, still crouched and looking up at me. “These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful. "
― Chuck Palahniuk
107 " No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Snuff
108 " There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. "
109 " 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. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
110 " Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday. "
111 " Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. "
112 " 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. "
113 " If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Rant
114 " These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Survivor
115 " Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one. "
116 " It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. "
117 " Art never comes from happiness. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
118 " As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Diary
119 " It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself. "
120 " Art never comes from happiness "