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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    Because sponges never have a bad day.
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  2. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    Trichloroethane. All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge... For one flash, mommy had seen the mountain without thinking of logging and ski resorts and avalanches, managed wildlife, plate tectonic geology, microclimates, rain shadow, or yin-yang locations. She'd seen the mountain without the framework of language. Without the cage of associations. She'd seen it without looking through the lens of everything she knew was true about mountains. What shed seen wasn't even a "mountain." It wasn't a natural resource. It had no name. "that's the big goal. To find a cure for knowledge.
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  3. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll lose.
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  5. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    There's no escaping from constant escape.
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  6. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    We don't live in the real world anymore. We live in a world of symbols.
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  7. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. In
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    And the kid is stupid enough to think a picture or a sculpture or a story could somehow replace anybody you love.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    So the last night the girl and her lover would be together, the girl would bring the lamp and set it so it threw the lover's shadow to the wall!!!!!
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  11. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    I fought against everything, but more and more I worry that I was never for anything.I can criticize and complain and judge everything, but what does that get me?Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing.We've taken the world apart, but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.My generation, all of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent too much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.It only looks as if we've accomplished something.I've never contributed anything worthwhile to the world.
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  12. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    I fought against everything, but more and more I worry that I was never for anything.I can criticize and complain and judge everything, but what does that get me?Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing.We've taken the world apart, but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.My generation, all of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better. We've spent too much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.It only looks as if we've accomplished something.I've never contributed anythinf worthwhile to the world.
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