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He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two. Charles Dickens

Favor Eye Runs Had He Prejudice Popular Two

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business. Charles Frazier

Time Me You Business Dinner Goodness Books One Time Plumbing More Colorado Faculty Had Indoor House Well Insulted Boy Said Than Little Grandparents Professor Her University

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Charles Morgan

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. Charles Reade

Character You Reap Destiny Habit Sow Act

Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte

Wisdom You Before Look Leap Twice

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. Charlotte Bronte

Write Because Going Just Cannot Help

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. Charlotte Bronte

Age Youth Memory Old Old Age Active Those Easily Vividly New Callous Still Years Impressions Comparatively Earlier

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Charlotte Bronte

Nature You Cast Merit Majority Mould Did Different Yours

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. Chuck Palahniuk

Gun Everyone Head Invisible Smiles

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. Chuck Palahniuk

God Pet Down Alligators Maybe Just Toilet Humans

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. Chuck Palahniuk

Relax Made Mistakes Must Making Years Years Ago Same Same Mistakes Right

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. Chuck Palahniuk

Day You Will One Day Worthless Must Until Die Realize Then

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. Chuck Palahniuk

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. Chuck Palahniuk

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises. Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk

Better Everything Ourselves Out Something Make Maybe Break

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. Chuck Palahniuk

Heart Trend Men Think Alexander I Think Out Horrible David Lifetime Checked Always Odd Kurt Kurt Cobain Celebrity Wallace Goes Heath McQueen Who Foster Peak

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. Chuck Palahniuk

In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us. Chuck Palahniuk

You Just Be Our Circumstances Inspiration Reaction Around Motives Diary Motto Get Just Where Us Really Coaches Your Aware

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Chuck Palahniuk

God Must Boring Never Does Get Us Ever Watch

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