"When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be."

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Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

Chuck Palahniuk

#Past Quotes #Stories Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.”
“I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.”
“The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.”
“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.”
“Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.”
“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”
“Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.”
“Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.”

Source : "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

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