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“At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“I don't understand beauty.”
― Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby

“Sometimes I think God is like weather--you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do wit you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

“Two years ago. To the best of my recollection, that was about the time I started to lose my mind.”
― Richard Bachman

“He wondered how far his legs would carry him on their own - how long before his brain took over them and began punishing them, making them work past any sane limit, to keep a bullet from crashing into its own bony cradle.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Pienso que llega un momento en que la voluntad sencillamente se agota.No importa lo que yo piense ¿entiendes?.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“They walked on, somehow in step, although all three of them were bent forever in different shapes by the pains that pulled them.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead.
You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“Başarı ve başarısızlık arzunun tatmin edilmesi ya da içinde kalması anlamına gelir. Arzu ya kişisel dürtülerimize bağlı olarak baskın bir biçimde içseldir, ya da esasen reklamlarla veya medyanın ve popüler kültürün sunduğu rol modelleriyle uyarılmış bir biçimde, dışsal. Tom benim başarı ve başarısızlık kavramlarımın toplumsal düzeyden çok kişisel düzeyde geçerli olduğu görüşünde. Toplumsal ödülü kabul etmediğim için başarı (ve başarısızlık) sadece anlık olabilirdi benim için, çünkü bu deneyim toplumsal destek gören bir servet, güç ve statü düşmanlığıyla, ya da başarısızlık söz konusu olduğunda utanç ve ayıplamayla sürdürülemezdi. Bu yüzden, Tom'a göre, bana sınavlarda başarılı olduğumu ya da iyi bir işim olduğunu ya da güzel bir piliçle çıktığımı söylemenin bir yararı yoktu; bu tür övgüler bir şey ifade etmiyordu benim için. Tabii ki, gerçekleştiklerinde bu şeylerin keyfini çıkarıyordum, fakat değerleri kalıcı olamazdı, çünkü onları değerlendiren toplumun kabulü söz konusu değildi bende.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

“Ma best mate is possibly Tommy. Cares aboot things, aboot people; maybe just a wee bit too much for the kind ay world we're compelled tae live in.”
― Irvine Welsh, Skagboys

“One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is alright.”
― J.G. Ballard, High-Rise

“One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.”
― J.G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights

“All the way down the creek, perched in the windows of the office blocks and department stores, the iguanas watched them go past, their hard frozen heads jerking stiffly… Without the reptiles, the lagoons and the creeks of office blocks half-submerged in the immense heat would have had a strange dream-like beauty, but the iguanas and basilisks brought the fantasy down to earth. As their seats in the one-time board-rooms indicated, the reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World

“...I had a momentary vision of Brooklands' entire middle class, its prosperous lawyers, doctors and senior managers, being confined to their own ghetto, with nothing to do all day except groom their ponies and swing their croquet mallets.”
― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

“All I said was that I thought it was a judgement from God that Blyth had first lost his leg and then had the replacement become the instrument of his downfall. All because of the rabbits. Eric, who was going through a religious phase at the time which I suppose I was to some extent copying, thought this was a terrible thing to say; God wasn't like that. I said the one I believed in was.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

“Poor Eric came home to see his brother, only to find (Zap!Pow!Dams burst!Bombs go off!Wasps fry:ttssss!) he's got a sister.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. For if disaster and oblivion have followed this painting down through time — so too has love. Insofar as it is immortal (and it is) I have a small, bright, immutable part in that immortality. It exists; and it keeps on existing. And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The center of my earth is you”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The problem (as I’d learned, repeatedly) was that thirty-six hours in, with your body in full revolt, and the remainder of your un-opiated life stretching out bleakly ahead of you like a prison corridor, you needed some fairly compelling reason to keep moving forward into darkness, rather than falling straight back into the gorgeous feather mattress you’d so foolishly abandoned.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“For in the deepest, most unshakable part of myself reason was useless. She was the missing kingdom, the unbruised part of myself I’d lost with my mother. Everything about her was a snowstorm of fascination,”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”
― Charles Bukowski

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship