"Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way."

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Chuck Palahniuk

#Together Quotes #Hammers Quotes #Way Quotes

“I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soap-boxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”

Source : Quoted in the Observer, 30 Dec1973.
“Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.”

Source : John Clare (1949). “Poems of John Clare's madness”
“I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.”
“Love is like the lion’s tooth.”

Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.160, Vintage
“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.”
“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”
“But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruin of the fairest structures of antiquity still displays the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to execute such laborious destruction.”
“V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing." "For a while." "Afraid of what I'd say?" "Nope, because it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm tight with you whether you like males or females or both." V looked into his best friend's eyes and realizedâ€¦ yeah, Butch wasn't going to judge him. They were cool no matter what. With a curse, V rubbed the center of his chest and blinked. He never cried but he felt as if he could at this moment.”

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