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21 " you're doomed at being you. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Diary
22 " There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics. "
23 " What you don't understand you can make mean anything. "
24 " The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place. "
25 " The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums. "
26 " Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know. "
27 " 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. "
28 " If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention. "
29 " 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. "
30 " 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. "
31 " If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion. "
32 " 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. "
33 " Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you a real artist. "
34 " Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television. "
35 " You'll need to suffer to make any real art. "
36 " Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. "
37 " A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat. "
38 " Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way. "
39 " And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people. "
40 " Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown. "