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1 " 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 , Diary
2 " All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. "
3 " 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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. "
6 " We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. "
7 " When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke. "
8 " 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. "
9 " A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit. "
12 " Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal. "
13 " Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage. "
14 " You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life. "
15 " Everyone's in their own personal coma. "
16 " Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't. "
17 " 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. "
18 " 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. "
19 " For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. "
20 " You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying. "
