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61 " Grace says, "We all die." She says, "The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Diary
62 " She could see it so clear. She could picture every room, inside every house. 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. "
63 " It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness "
64 " A different toothbrush waits in every time zone. "
65 " Come le funi che aprono il sipario di un teatro, ogni tuo sorriso è un debutto. Una prima. Tu che sveli te stesso. "
66 " Anytime 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. "
67 " Suffering is key to inspiration. "
68 " Days she's wasted locked up here in this room, and nothing she's done is half as good as the sketch of a chair she did while shitting her pants. "
69 " We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten. "
70 " What they don't teach you in art school is never, ever to tell people you wanted to be an artist. Just so you know, for the rest of your life, people will torture you by saying how you used to love to draw when you were young. You used to love to paint. A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat. "
71 " How physical beauty turns out to be chemistry and geometry and anatomy. Art is really science. Discovering why people like something is so you can replicate it. Copy it. It's a paradox, "creating" a real smile. Rehearsing again and again a spontaneous moment of horror. All the sweat and boring effort that goes into creating what looks easy and instant. "
72 " It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. "
73 " All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering. "
74 " Still, the better she could draw, the worse her life got--until nothing in her real world was good enough. It got until she didn't belong anywhere. It got so nobody was good enough, refined enough, real enough. Not the boys in high school. Not the other girls. Nothing was real as her imagined world. "
75 " Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the divine channel through us. "
76 " People accepted the worst from each other, screaming and slapping. Divorce and abortion were never a plot option. If this was love or just inertia, Misty couldn't tell. "
77 " She's seen it, pictured it, dreamed of it. She's wanted it so bad. "
78 " The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. "
79 " Se pueden repetir los mismos milagros una y otra vez mientras nadie recuerde la última vez "
80 " What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that. "