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21 " The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Tell-All
22 " The problem is, if you never weep in public... well, the public assumes you never weep. "
23 " Perhaps life itself occurred as a sort of prison she felt compelled to escape. "
24 " It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties. "
25 " Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis. "
26 " His eyes the bright brown of July Fourth sunlight through a tall mug of root beer. Quite the American specimen. A classic face of such symmetrical proportions, the exactly balanced type of face one dreams of looking down to find smiling and eager between one's inner thighs. Still, that's the trouble with only a single glance at any star on the horizon. "
27 " No memory is anything more than a personal choice. "
28 " When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior. "
29 " Based on decades of observation, I propose that sudden high levels of praise always trigger an equal amount of inner self-loathing. "
30 " A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better. "
31 " One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they’re lodged beneath each fingernail. "
32 " All humans search for either reasons to be good or excuses to be bad. "
33 " We all have some proper noun to blame. "
34 " No, none of us seem so very real.We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe. "
35 " When she's in love, nothing can make her sad; however, when she's not in love, nothing can make her happy. "
36 " As I readied these luxuriant ablutions, my dearest Katherine said, 'Webster, my darling, the pints of love essence you erupt at the peak of oral passion taste more intoxicating than even the richest European chocolate.' My beloved belched demurely into her fist, swallowed and said, 'All women should taste your delicious emissions. "