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Book: Beautiful You
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
As if she ought to know better than to scream and bleed in public.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
Artificial over-stimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available. Whether the victims were men or women, arousal addiction seemed to have become the new normal.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
Penny wanted this kind of attention from the world. She wanted people everywhere to know her name and to love her. There, she'd admitted it aloud. But she couldn't do anything that would justify such massive public acclaim. She just needed a mentor, a teacher, someone to discover her.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
Artificial overstimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
In her experience every man thought he was a natural dancer, and every one thought he was good in bed. The truth was that most men only knew one dance step-usually the pogo-and between the sheets they were like a monkey in a nature film poking at an anthill with a stick.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
Her goals had been the goals of radical women a century ago: to become a lawyer . . . to compete toe-to-toe with men. But like any second-hand goal, it felt like a burden. It had already been fulfilled ten million times over by other women. Penny wanted a dream of her own, but she had no idea how that dream would look.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
An ancient truism had once decreed, "Self improvement is masturbation..
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
She'd never trusted her own natural impulses and instincts Among her greatest fears was the possibility that she might never discover and develop her deepest talents and intuitions. Her special gifts. Her life would be wasted in pursuing the goals set for her by other people. Instead, she wanted to reclaim a power and authority - a primitive, irresistible force - that transcended gender roles. She dreamed of wielding a raw magic that predated civilization itself.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
The mistakes we make in our youth," she said solemnly, "we pay for with the rest of our lives.
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Chuck Palahniuk _ Beautiful You
She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.
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