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“Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“I'm in love. So kill me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the
audience.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now?" she says.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Everywhere, words are mixing. Words and lyrics and dialogue are mixing in a soup that could trigger a chain reaction. Maybe acts of God are just
the right combination of media junk thrown out into the air. The wrong words collide and call up an earthquake. The way rain dances called storms,
the right combination of words might call down tornadoes. Too many advertising jingles commingling could be behind global warming. Too many
television reruns bouncing around might cause hurricanes. Cancer. AIDS.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All those little doses of emotion.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as 'el mar' which is masculine.They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“The fish is my friend too," he said aloud. "I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Bed is my friend.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“It is on a day like this one,
a little later a little earlier
that you descover without surprise
that something is wrong
that you don't know how to live
and you will never know”
― Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

“Bir şeyler kırılıyordu, bir şeyler kırıldı. Kendini-nasıl demeli?-dayanıklı hissetmiyorsun artık: Sana bugüne kadar güç veren-öyle sanıyordun, öyle sanıyorsun-,yüreğini ısıtan şey, varoluş duygun,neredeyse önemli olduğun duygusu, dünyaya bağlanma,dünyada kalma duygusu eksikliğini hissettirmeye başlıyor.”
― Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

“Sen bir aylak, bir uyurgezersin, bir istiridyesin. Tanımlar saatlere, günlere göre değişiyor ama taşıdıkları anlam az çok belli: Yaşamanın, harekete geçmenin, bir şey yapmanın pek sana göre olmadığını hissediyorsun; sadece sürüp gitmek istiyorsun, sadece bekleyişi ve unutuşu istiyorsun.”
― Georges Perec, Un homme qui dort

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Give out what you most want to come back.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

“There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

“Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class

“Maryam closed her eyes and listened as Noruz began. 'You know that every spring, crocuses grow in the courtyard outside. They come from the dirt, green shoots from nothing. One day the flowers come purple as night, the nights when we were young. And inside the petals, saffron grows the color of blood. Then they die, and the ground is dirt again where chickens shit. That's the way of things: saffron, shit, saffron, shit.' Maryam smiled at the word in Noruz's mouth. 'I was sad and Dr. Ahlavi told me this: to remember that saffron comes from the dirt.”
― Yasmin Crowther, The Saffron Kitchen