February 2012
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“If you can’t say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
– Gertrude Stein
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“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may...”
– Neil Gaiman, M is for Magic
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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great...”
– Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of...”
– Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors
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“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The Great Gatsby
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be...
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
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“People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia
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“At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really...”
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“Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let’s say...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Rant : An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
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“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
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“Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint....”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
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Listen
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“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
January 2012
84 posts
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“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters