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41 " But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
42 " If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible. "
43 " Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. "
44 " Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. "
45 " Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. "
46 " Find good in what the world says is evil. "
47 " I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. "
48 " I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives. "
49 " Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize. "
50 " Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be. "
51 " The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty. "
52 " I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. "
53 " You have to keep recycling yourself. "
54 " Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. "
55 " Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known. "
56 " My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me. "
57 " You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. "
58 " Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future. "
59 " you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands. "
60 " So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell! "