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1 " What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
2 " Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. "
3 " You can’t fool people into loving you. "
4 " After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. "
5 " You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. "
6 " The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create. "
7 " Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead. "
8 " Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. "
9 " some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems. "
10 " I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God. "
11 " It sounds as if you'd like to be God. "
12 " There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die. "
13 " The lucky ones are just born dead. "
14 " What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in. "
15 " Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. "
16 " By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. "
17 " Art never comes from happiness. "
18 " It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself. "
19 " Art never comes from happiness "
20 " they should let some people into the library by prescription only "