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#1

“She doesn't quite chop his head off.
She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill

tags: writing

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#2

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#3

“Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

tags: detective, noir

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#4

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

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#5

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: loss

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#6

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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#7

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: own, things

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#8

“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

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#9

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: death, living

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#10

“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

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#11

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

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#12

“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
― Frank Miller

tags: frank-miller, hero, heroes

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#13

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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#14

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

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#15

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: future

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#16

“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan

tags: adventure, character-defining

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#17

“By this axe I rule!”
― Robert E. Howard, Kull: Exile of Atlantis

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#18

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

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#19

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: inspirational

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#20

“They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle-earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: fantasy, heaven

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#21

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: books, mind

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