"Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“The last woman I was in was the Statue of Liberty.”
“Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 8, 2012
“Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.”
“I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.”
“Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.”
“Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we canâ€™t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.”
“The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.”

Source : "Daughter of the revolution" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2002.
“There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air.”

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