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“People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party . . .

As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the Stairway.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: esprit-d-escalier, guts, phrases, saint-gut-free, spirit-of-the-stairway

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#2

“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.”
― Erin McCarthy, Hard and Fast

tags: academics, brains, guts, intelligence, sociology

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#3

“A true friend doesn't have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: affection, baby, beat, beat-me, beating, beatings, beg, begging, bonhomie, camaraderie, childish, easy-going, fight, forgiveness, friendship, friendships, funny, game-of-love, gut, guts, humor, i-love-you, i-m-sorry, kneeling, little-things, love-game, michael-bassey-johnson, play, playing, plea, quarrel, quarrelsome, sweetheart, sympathy, true-friend, true-friends, truth

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#4

“As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

tags: guts

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#5

“When you sneak into somebody’s backyard, it does seem that guts and curiosity are working together. Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Guts have to go for the long haul. Curiosity’s like a fun friend you can’t really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own-with whatever guts you can muster.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

tags: curiosity, guts

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#6

“You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

tags: conscience, government, guts, moral-compass, truth

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