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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    925 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: loss
    9422 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I don't want to die without any scars.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: death, scars, tyler-durden
    6083 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: life
    4406 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: love
    3044 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    940 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: fight-club, narrator, palahniuk
    748 likes

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    Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy
    “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: materialism
    698 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
    tags: marla-singer
    596 likes

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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Love is not a victory march
    It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
    tags: love
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    Jess Rothenberg
    “For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedule so that you can accidentally bump into him. It is called being efficient.”
    ― Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me
    tags: high-school, humor, love, young-adult, young-love
    106 likes

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    Laurie Halse Anderson
    “The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.”
    ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
    tags: football, high-school
    84 likes

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    Rachel Kushner
    “People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”
    ― Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
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  • #19
    It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
    “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: attributed-no-source, courage
    17057 likes

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    E.E. Cummings
    “listen: there’s a hell
    of a good universe next door; let’s go”
    ― E.E. Cummings
    tags: ee-cummings, poetry
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    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: adversity, character, failure, perseverance
    3224 likes

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    George Orwell
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
    ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
    tags: animal-farm
    7674 likes

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    Stephen King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: reading, writing
    13095 likes

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    Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
    “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
    ― J. D. Salinger
    tags: salinger, stories
    6595 likes

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    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    ― Ray Bradbury
    tags: culture, reading
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
    6451 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
    13704 likes

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    Ava Gardner
    “The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
    ― Ava Gardner
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: acquiescence, authority, complicity, dissent, protest, silence
    1183 likes

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  • #30
    Kurt Cobain
    “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
    ― Kurt Cobain
    tags: activism, dissent, protest, truth-telling
    745 likes



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