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“I like to look at the glass half full.”

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Abdallah II, born on January 30, 1962, is the King of Jordan. During his reign, he has been committed to national stability and economic development, promoting a series of reforms. more

“With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.”

Years Looks Littles Has Beens Made Choices Lessons Expectations Curiosity Chains Lectures

Book:Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

Made Fall Crazy Eating Shadow Meals Bombs Atoms Going To Work Bulbs Atom Bomb

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

People Looks Reason Enough Dies Differences Mirrors Photograph Vampire

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.”

People Years Home Kids Walks Cities Wife Husband Size Disappear

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.”

People Firsts Important Stories Seems Past Moving Culture Grows Accepting Building Drama Horror Complaining Moving Forward Bored Resolve Allowing Horror Stories New Cultures Venting

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

Long Night

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“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 want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .”

People World Mean Would Be Humanity Animal

Book:Haunted

Source: Haunted

“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 and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.”

World Believe Littles Kids Age Together Mother Magic Fool Opposites Liars Villain Dictionary Encyclopedia

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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