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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.


Chuck Palahniuk

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If you have chance why you won't use it?
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JANET LARSON The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Bestenfalls ein Bewacher. Schlimmstenfalls ein Voyeur.
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Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommuniziere...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you love something, let it go.
If you don't love something, definitely let it go.
Basic...
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If only you'd stayed in character.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT If someone gives you something for free, don’t be critical of it.
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EJUMP - 2017 To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to ke...
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JYNNETTE L. MILLER Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. ...
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JAY NORTHCOTE If you lay with a scorpion, don't be surprised when it finally stings you.
DASHANNE STOKES set your goals in life because if u dont then it seems like a wild goose chase..
RAHUL.V.BHOLE If a woodchuck really could chuck wood..since you had to ask..it would chuck as much wood as a woodc...
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NEIL STRAUSS If you die, yes, the money comes back, but less comes back.
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MARC LEVY If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.
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JEN LANCASTER Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boat...
SUE MONK KIDD True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself.
NERISSA IRVING "Dont forget me" says love. "Forget me if you have to" says true love............
PRABHA If something comes out, you had better be ready, no matter how incorrect it might be.
DAN MULLEN Failure is not the final fall.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If it is worth the pain. If it is worth the anguish. Then leave me lying in agony.
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ROBERT STACK When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
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HUGH JACKMAN The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If something comes up, we'll deal with it at that time.
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LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it.
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CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
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It's the truth one road and tha...
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KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Expectation kills. Just go with the flow, you might be surprised when something better comes along i...
JOYRAM SHAW If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
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GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS... Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if i...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that ...
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SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
ISAAC MARION If you tell the secret to the Nile you should not be surprised if the desert knows it.
VIKRANT PARSAI That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't be surprised if you get muddy. Don't be surprised if you get wet. Be prepared to wear somethin...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK