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My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.


Chuck Palahniuk

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DADA VASWANI It is not an honoring event. It is more so like an event that allows us to come together for this pa...
EVA MCLEOD Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot bu...
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WARREN G. BENNIS It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
ANATOLE FRANCE Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I wanted to create jobs so that my children could stay here in our community and work. People in the...
BILLY PICKERING Sometimes isolation can be shared.
KEN GRIMWOOD I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is fil...
ADAM DRIVER Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ...
DEYTH BANGER The people who are bus drivers and custodians live in the district. They're my friends and they're m...
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN My eyes were closed, they're open now
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YOUSUF KARSH They have told us over and over again that they are coming into our community, and they want to be a...
CATHY CROSSON You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON I think there is something in my books that says these are people doing their best under difficult c...
SONYA HARTNETT It's wonderful that so many people are here to offer their help and love, ... It not only says a lot...
JAMES MCGOVERN I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation m...
FRANZ WRIGHT They were active in the community because they were people-people. They got their strengths from oth...
BARBARA JUDD ...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu...
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GLEN LOYD sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it ...
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YOUSUF KARSH This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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LAURIE GRAHAM Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things ...
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THOMAS S. MONSON There are a lot of them in every county. They are such an important part of the past and the present...
CANETA HANKINS Always remember:
It is #Rabbji / God alone who really is Rich, and others...all are poor.
SADA MALHOTRA SOLIDAO, LONELINESS.
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GROVER NORQUIST To stand on the
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JOYCE CAROL OATES Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if t...
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ANN MCBRIDE One of the things we're trying to persuade kids to do is not to give out personal details online, do...
ERNIE ALLEN My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be trea...
IGOR ELISEEV Faith is about the connection of people as much as it is about God. We are called to be in community...
REV. KELLEN ROGGENBUCK My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that ne...
BANANA YOSHIMOTO Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; foll...
GERMAINE GREER The community is encouraged to come and hear what each candidate is about. We want to know how they ...
FRANK WILSON My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who...
KENNETH EVERETT Loneliness - If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alon...
LARRY KERSTEN There's less of a community for film here. Artistically, this is not a strong community, ... It's ea...
EDWARD SEYMOUR The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not...
GAVIN HOOD The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not...
GAVID HOOD There is a percentage of kids who don't go on to college for a variety of reasons. And the irony is ...
GINO NALLI TRAVEL to the developing world is a challenge for many people. They are often afraid of seeing the p...
JEFF GREENWALD It is essential to have training so that they are not ... overridden by the international community ...
JENNY BLINKHORN What happens with aging, is that your safety, community and ability to fully be who you are is at ri...
AMY ERRETT The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It i...
OSHO We've always partnered with the schools. They are the anchors of the community.
TONY IORIO People often don't know they have rights or services that are available because they don't know they...
KAY TVAROCH This is about people who are trying to make a living, trying to work, trying to be productive citize...
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GEORGE FRASER There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few mon...
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JOHN SANDFORD They say that some are born to lead, and others to follow, but I believe that there are also those w...
JUSTIN APPEL Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The priorities are keeping people out of dangerous situations and being able to help others who may ...
BILL BYRNE Most of them [service people in the portraits] will be from the Marshfield community but they may no...
DONNA JOHNSON Polls explain, not predict. They are instruments that have limits and collect answers from people wh...
FERNANDO TUESTA The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; a...
MOTHER THERESA Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional...
SHARON WEIL In my community, mental health isn't taken seriously enough. Therapy is replaced by prayer. Tears ar...
FRIDA R. There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The fi...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are su...
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REGINA LEWIS Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi...
NORA EPHRON When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone...
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BILL TERRY When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
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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...
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