"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.”

Source : Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black
“The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.”
“Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.”
“Honestly, I love stealing things.”
“It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.”
“Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.”
“If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?”
“Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.”

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