"We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?”
“I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.”
“I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.”

Source : Interview to Thumbscrew Magazine, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. Spring, 1996.
“Comedy is taken care of by a free market.”
“It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can't be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more...”
“To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.”
“She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.”
“Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.”

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