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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.”
    Chuck Palahniuk

  • #2
    Peter De Vries
    “Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
    Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

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    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #4
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #5
    William Faulkner
    “Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
    William Faulkner

  • #6
    Ernest Hemingway
    “You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #7
    John Fante
    “Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”
    John Fante, Ask the Dust

  • #8
    Jim Thompson
    “Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle.”
    Jim Thompson
    tags: noir

  • #9
    Jim Thompson
    “I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.”
    Jim Thompson, Pop. 1280

  • #10
    Denis Johnson
    “I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.”
    Denis Johnson, Already Dead: A California Gothic

  • #11
    John Cheever
    “I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
    John Cheever

  • #12
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #13
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

  • #14
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

  • #15
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “...the girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Tell-All

  • #18
    Mae West
    “I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”
    Mae West

  • #19
    Bill Watterson
    “Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #20
    “Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #22
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #23
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #24
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
    Rainer Marie Rilke

  • #25
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #26
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant...”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #28
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #29
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke

  • #30
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
    ...live in the question.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet



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