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41 " There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
42 " Ignorance was bliss. "
43 " It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe, "
44 " We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. "
45 " Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit. "
46 " We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion. "
47 " Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves. "
48 " Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. "
49 " She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time.The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages. "
50 " Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second. "
51 " My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit. "
52 " I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise. "
53 " In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway. "
54 " I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time. "
55 " And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. "
56 " We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelings and sensitivity. Just made-up subjective emotional crap. There is no soul. There is no God. There's just decisions and disease and death. "
57 " More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop. "
58 " After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis. "
59 " That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial. "
60 " It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget. "