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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    That's why the bran muffins and the colonoscopies.
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  2. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song "You're the One That I Want" from the musical Grease three times in a single day-seemingly by accident, whether in an elevator, on a radio, a telephone hold button, or wherever-it indicates that you'll surely die before sunset. In contrast, the phantom odor of scorched toast merely means that a deceased loved one continues to watch over you and protect you from harm."
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  3. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    For most of human history, Leonard says, people have perceived of Hell as a sort of inpatient clinic where we go to kick our addiction to life.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can take centuries to expire. "All people ever see is how the body dies,"
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  5. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    Its my experience that girls tend to be terrifically smart until they grow breasts. You may dismiss this observation as my personal prejudice, based on my own tender age, but thirteen years seems to be when human beings reach their fullest flower of intelligence, personality, and pluck. Both girls and bots... Let girls get their menstruation or boys have their first wet dream, and they instantly forget their own brilliance and talent... Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behaviour, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next 60 years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.
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  6. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    Do NOT die while wearing cheap shoes.
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  7. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    In Hell, whenever the demons announce they're going to treat everyone to a big-name Hollywood movie, don't get too excited because it's always The English Patient or, unfortunately, The Piano. It's never The Breakfast Club.
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  8. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually watching television and surfing the internet are really excellent practise for being dead.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    To be honest, I keep wishing we could all talk. Chew the fat. And, yes, I know that wishing is another symptom of hope, but I can't help it. As we amble along, trudging over steaming brimstone beds of sulfur and coal, I want to ask if anyone else feels an intense sense of shame. By dying, do they feel as if they've disappointed everyone who ever bothered to love them? After all the effort that so many people made to raise them, to feed and teach them, do Archer or Leonard or Babette feel a crushing sense of having failed their loved ones? Do they worry that dying constitutes the biggest sin they could possibly commit?
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    {W}hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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  11. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    Death is the One Big Mistake that none of us EVER plans to make.
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  12. Chuck Palahniuk _ Damned

    In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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