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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question
whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.”
― Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“There is only one key to knowledge, and that is desire.”
― Amélie Nothomb, The Book of Proper Names

“A beautiful woman is a casus belli; a pretty woman is flagrant misdemeanour. All the invasions of history have been determined by petticoats.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“My life is a reading list.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
― Salvador Dali

“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Being born's a hell of a lottery.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

“Kittens were in continual abundance on the farm, there was a kind of kitten currency in the neighborhood, they were bartered for all kinds of emotional regret or fulfillment by parents - a doll lost, an exam passed.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“life, a blur of birth and death—birth and death being the only two moments of life in which we don’t exist.”
― Will Chancellor, A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall

“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“When exactly did every housewife in America become a whore?”
― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

“Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A

“How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation A