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  1. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    Todos nós crescemos vendo os mesmos programas de TV. É como se tivéssemos os mesmos implantes artificiais de memória. Não nos recordamos de quase nada da nossa verdadeira infância, mas nos lembramos de tudo o que aconteceu com as mesmas famílias dos seriados de comédia. Temos os mesmos objetivos básicos. Todos nós temos os mesmos medos.
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  2. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    Then he went on to bore me with a lot of details about jet engines, the venturi effect, increasing lift by increasing camber with the flaps, and how after all four engines flame out the plane will turn into a 450,000-pound glider. Then since the autopilot will have trimmed out to fly a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change. You just don't know what I've been through this past year.
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  3. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    These days, people aren't going to fill stadiums to get preached at by somebody who isn't beautiful.
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  4. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance.
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  5. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    The truth is you can be orphaned again and again.
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  6. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    Maybe what I liked most about dancing is the rules. In a world where anything goes, here are solid arbitrary rules.
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  7. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    We dance past states of saints in somebody else's religion. To m they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.
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  8. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    The same as if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, you realize, if no one had been there to witness the agony of Christ, would we be saved?The key to salvation is how much attention you get. How high a profile you get. Your audience share. Your exposure. Your name recognition. Your press following.
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  9. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom
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  10. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    Through people locked together crotch to crotch, face to face, crotch to face, crotch to ass, and ass to face, I dig a pit.
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  11. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    it's why men marry women and why women have children.
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  12. Chuck Palahniuk _ Survivor

    this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
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