"If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?"

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Source : "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Chuck Palahniuk

“Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But I dont think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.”
“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
“But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.
“I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty.”

Source : Plea at murder trial, Los Angeles, Cal., 22 July 1994
“When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases Iâ€™m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.”
“I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.”
“When you are relaxed about where you are at in life, things tend to flow more fluidly. It is as if you poke three holes in a bucket of water. The same amount of water is going to flow out the holes whether you let it flow or you shake the bucket. The difference is the amount of turmoil on the inside of the bucket!”
“Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.”

Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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