Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.
Chuck PalahniukThere's an opposite to dรฉjร vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.
Chuck PalahniukOn a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
Chuck PalahniukYou can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.
Chuck PalahniukHow can you possibly believe he really loves you?โ Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittierโs hand.โYou have no choice,โ Mr. Whittier tells her. โIf you need to be loved.
Chuck PalahniukI think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.
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