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So if you think this is going to save you... If you think anything is going to save you... Consider this your final warning.


Chuck Palahniuk

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J.K. ROWLING Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
MICHAEL CAINE So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...
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BARRY MANILOW I think I need you to save me this time.
CASSIA LEO You think he’s perfect and he’s safe and, in your head, he can do anything... but he can’t sav...
EMME ROLLINS Life goals and changing the world...You've got to start small. You can not change the world unless y...
ANGIE KARAN This isn’t a church social, Sweetheart. You aren’t going to be able to save me this time.
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DIANE HARRIS Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK And I think, you know, I like it, so I can't understand it, I think if you're gonna have this stuff ...
DAMIEN HIRST Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my...
TAYLOR SWIFT So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You kno...
J.K. ROWLING If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?
RAINBOW ROWELL If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is so...
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GUY FISHER If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequence...
CRISS JAMI This is where the wise man turns away. This is where the holy kneel and call on God. These are the l...
MARK LAWRENCE You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.
DAVID ROBINSON You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.
ARTHUR GOLDEN We'd probably both do it over again. We've been in this business a long time and that's part of bein...
DOUG BENTLEY You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself...
, ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLD, 2005 You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.
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DIANA WYNNE JONES I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is goi...
EARTHA KITT What are you going to do to save babies?
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If it's a real talented guy and we like the guy and we think he is going to help us win, is going to...
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CHLOE THURLOW A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk, ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK we are not going to ask you who you are or what you are because our priority is to save lives.
JOANNA GONZALEZ If someone was going to kill someone dear to you, and you could stop that person by killing them ins...
A.J. DARKHOLME It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first tim...
ERIK BRUHN To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
JOSEPH FARRELL It's just not in the back of your mind. If a shot gets through, you don't worry about it because you...
MATHIEU DANDENAULT I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
DONALD TRUMP If we can save a life with this, we're happy. I think this is something visitors will heed.
DR. LIBBY CHAR You're going to ... your mouth is going to be taped shut. I gave you fair warning.
JUDGE NANCY SAITTA To save your world you asked this man to die;
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN If you think this is a tough environment, the fire hose is going to be on full stream in the third q...
JAMES WINCHESTER IF" - I lie I am going to add the best features... the peoplea around = features will be taken to bu...
DEYTH BANGER I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're...
SIMON COWELL They come at you so fast. If you have a couple extra seconds to react, you can save a life.
GEORGE MERCER And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
BILLY SUNDAY If you've got any spare change after everything you've given, you need to give big - and fast - if w...
BILL TURNER First of all, nobody is ever going to know about the fact you might have smoked weed with the guys. ...
DAVE BLISS I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're goin...
JOHN IRVING I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody c...
JOSIE LOREN If God had bid you give them all your estates to own them, or lay down your lives to save them, sure...
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HUGH GRANT Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
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ROBERT LUTTS Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food...
JEAN NIDETCH Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON If this doesn't get you going, we've got to check your pulse.
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JOSEPH KOTRAN Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her.
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JOSS WHEDON Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
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THOMAS WADDEN If this is going to be ongoing, if he has a problem, I think he's got to step up, and, you know, ack...
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VIRONIKA TUGALEVA If you think it's going to rain, it will.
CLINT EASTWOOD You don't sue somebody if you think they're going to be complementary or helpful to you,
MILLARD FULLER if there are no heros to save you,
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK 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...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK 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.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK 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
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK