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Tell Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history…
- We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
- You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.
- You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
- I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
- You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple…
- But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know…
- You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
- The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
- A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?" "Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to…
- Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
- The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy…
- Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
- Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your…
- Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.
- Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.
- Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who…
- Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia…
- Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they…
- When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
- People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
- Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
- The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
- You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space,…
- Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes…
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- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden