"This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Giving Up Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.66, Penguin
“The only logical solution to solve the Palestinian issue is to hold free elections with the participation of Palestinians inside and outside the occupied territories and a recognition of the nation's legitimacy”
“Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.”
“I'm very attracted to Indians.”
“Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.”
“Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.”
“The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”
“There is no middle way. We cannot compromise on cruelty.”

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