Nein, fair ist das nicht, aber dass die Erde sich wie die Hölle anfühlt, liegt an unserer Erwartung, dass sie sich wie der Himmel anfühlen sollte.


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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
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Find good in what the world says is evil.
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Make me into anything, but just love me.
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Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialis...
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way...
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I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this...
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Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashio...
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges ...
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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed fee...
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I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Gu...
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My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal f...
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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it mi...
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People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they&#...
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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inven...
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Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, tho...
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Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's rig...
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing,...
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to...
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
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Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
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The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that...
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I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustr...
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'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim...
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
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She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...
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Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...
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Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow peop...
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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber th...
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He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
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My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...
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One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they'r...
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the...
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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
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Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
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With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
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The things you own end up owning you.
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
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We just had a near-life experience!
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This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
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Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
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Real discoveries come from chaos.
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The future is just wasted on some people.
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You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
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There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
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Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
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You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
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I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
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