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#1

“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

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#2

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

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#3

“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: death, gun, suicide

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#4

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

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#5

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

tags: destruction, life, loss, resurrection

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#6

“Running might take her forward, it could even take her home; but it couldn't take her back–not ten minutes, ten hours, not ten years or days. And that was tough, as Hely would say. Tough: since back was the way she wanted to go, since the past was the only place she wanted to be.”
― Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

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#7

“Cubitum eamus?"
"What?"
"Nothing.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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#8

“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#9

“The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it.”
― J.G. Ballard, Millennium People

tags: london, river, sea, thames

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#10

“But a lottery isn't meaningless. Someone has to win.”
― J.G. Ballard

tags: lottery

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#11

“Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.”
― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come

tags: ballard, j-g-ballard, kingdom-come, lies, truth

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#12

“After a heavy snowfall one night in early December the snow formed a thick quilt from which the old man's face emerged like a sleeping child's above an eiderdown. Jim told himself that he never moved because he was warm under the snow.”
― J G Ballard

tags: empire-of-the-sun

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#13

“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: death, life, nadsat, redemption, reform, suicidal-thoughts

14 likes

#14

“Horrorshow is right, friend. A real show of horrors.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: horrorshow, nadsat

17 likes

#15

“Each man kills the thing he loves”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#16

“Ser bueno puede llegar a ser algo horrible.”
― anthony burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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#17

“A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.”
― Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers

tags: language, truth

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#18

“No ambition but to use up the big wages on more drink and more hopeless horses.”
― Irvine Welsh, Ecstasy

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#19

“This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.”
― Irvine Welsh, The Acid House

tags: funny, humanity, humor, jobs

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#20

“Ah didnae really know much aboot women. Ah didnae really know much aboot anything.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

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#21

“But here, just at this point: this is limbo. There is the sense that if you stay at this point for too long, stop at this point of oblivion for a certain amount of time, you will just cease to exist. And we cannot move.”
― Irvine Welsh, Filth

tags: limbo, oblivion

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#22

“Той не съжаляваше, че не постъпи в колеж.
Колежът е за хора, които не знаят, че са умни.”
― Richard Bachman, Rage

tags: rage-king-stephen

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#23

“EXPLOSIVE IN MY COAT POCKET—THE VARIETY THEY CALL BLACK IRISH. TWELVE POUNDS IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WITHIN A THIRD OF A MILE AND PROBABLY ENOUGH TO EXPLODE THE JETPORT FUEL STORAGE TANKS. IF YOU DON’T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS”
― Richard Bachman, The Running Man

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#24

“Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all.”
― Richard Bachman, Stephen King, Thinner

tags: solitude

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#25

“aber es gab keine Razzien in den Lasterhöhlen mehr. Jedermann wusste, dass Lasterhöhlen jedem wirklich revolutionären Klima abträglich waren.”
― Richard Bachman, The Running Man

tags: menschenjagd, richard-bachmann, stephen-king

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#26

“Es gibt einen Ort in uns, wo es praktisch die ganze Zeit regnet, die Schatten immer lang und der Wald voller Ungeheuer ist.”
― Richard Bachman, The Running Man

tags: menschenjagd, richard-bachmann, stephen-king

10 likes

#27

“suddenly I’m seized by a minor anxiety attack. There are too many fucking movies to choose from.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#28

“... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#29

“where are we going?' I asked.
'I don't know,' he said. 'just driving.'
'But this road doesn't go anywhere,' I told him.
'That doesn't matter.'
'What does?' I asked, after a little while.
'Just that we're on it, dude,' he said.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero

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#30

“There is no time for the innocent.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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