Request for favorite quotes!

Rich People don’t like to tolerate much. Money gives you the permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t just pretty and perfect. You can’t put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliché.

These useless details are only useless until you connect them all together.

Everything is nothing by itself.

An artists job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

No detail is anything by itself.

Everything is a self portrait.
Everything is a diary.

You can’t buy inspiration. You can’t reason your way to an epiphany. Develop a formula. A road map to enlightenment.

While the inspiration comes, you keep going.

A flash of inspiration. A moment of insight.

Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. The muse. Our guardian angel. Suffering takes us out of our rational self control and lets the divine channel through us.

There is nothing special in the world. Nothing Magic. Just physics.

People who look for supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive me nuts.

Art, inspiration, love, they’re all so easy to dissect. To explain away.

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Its so hard to hard to forget pain, but its even harder to remember sweetness.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

I can see that my life isn’t an end. It’s a mean to the future.

Just for the record, the weather today is slightly maudlin.

Your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
Doomed to fame. Cursed with talent. Life after Life.

Art school doesn’t teach you how to escape your soul being recycled.
Period revival.
Our own homemade immortality.

How you live inside your head and you only see what you want.
How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

We already know everything. We just need to remember it.

A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

Somebody’s homemade immortality.
Their lasting effect.
Their Life after Death.

"All you need to understand is you turned out to be one sorry sack of shit."

Bermuda Triangulated.

"You'll need to suffer to make any real art."

"You have endless ways you can commit suicide without [i]dying[/i] dying."

"What you don't understand you can make mean anything."

"The job of an artist is just not to forget."

"Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness."

I'll second:
"what you dont understand you can make mean anything."

great line.

"Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television."

"The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place."

i agree with "what you don't understand you can make mean anything."

"The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We want creativity to be a system of cause and effect. Results. Marketable product. We want dedication and disciple to equal recognition and reward."

"The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place."

It's from page 111 and it goes...
'Anytime some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. That's the Misty Wilmot drinking game.'

Please add that to the quotes page, I love it! It's my favourite quote from a book ever.

"You writing, you walking down the street...your whole life shows in every physical action. How you hold your shoulders...What you do with you're hands, you're always blabbing your life story."

That's a scary thought considering masturbation.

"The more you know about art, the more it sounds like witchcraft." pg 195.

"Maybe people have to suffer before they can risk doing what they love." pg. 44

"You can repeat the same miracles over and over again as long as no one remembers the last time." pg. 186

There's also one in there about:

This is as smart as you're ever going to get.

Anyone know what page we're on, here?

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness."

"We have no scar for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Reeko [/i]
[B]I'll second:
"what you dont understand you can make mean anything."

great line. [/B][/QUOTE] Yeah I'll third or fourth or whatever that. It's a quote to live by.

"We're betrayed by everything we do. Our art. Our children."

"We couldn't die if we wanted to."

A second for "Bermuda Triangulated"

And millions more people have already mentioned...

everything you do is a self portrait

what you don't understand you can make mean anything

anything from the beginning of the book until the end (right before the letter) (the letter isn't good)

" Her mom told misty that all big-money fortunes are based on fooling people and pain. The bigger the fortune, she said, the more people got hurt."
Foreshadowing...it stings kinda

I'm not writing this for you, anymore.

"Can you feel this?"

"If the first man who looks at your boobs in four years turns out to be a cop, take a drink. If it turns out he already knows what you look like naked, take another drink. Make that drink a double"

"This is how we know what we don't know"

"Everything is a diary"

"The man calling from Long Beach, he says his bathroom is missing"

"The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place"

"If you're here, you've failed again. It's signed, Constance."

[COLOR=Green]today is the longest day of the year--- but anymore, every day is

And just in case you forgot, youre one chicken shit piece of work. Youre a selfish, half-assed, lazy, spineless piece of crap. In case you dont remember you ran the fucking car in the fucking garage and tried to suffocate your sorry ass with exhaust fumes, but no, you couldnt even do that right, It helps if you start with a full tank of gas. [/COLOR]

i'll second "can you feel this?" that has to be the best, yet simplest quote in the whole damn book. Any book, as long as it has Chuck Palahniuk as the authors name has awesome quotes front to back.

"a quello che non capisci puoi dare qualunque significato" ;)

[QUOTE=Meatbag]"Are you an oaf?"[/QUOTE]
The whole time shes in the room and yelling at him.. that is one of my favorite scenes.

But seriously, I have so many favorite quotes from Diary and a lot of them were already brought up, but my favorite has to be:

[I][B]What they don't teach you in art school is never, ever to tell people that you wanted to be an artist.[/B] Just so you know, for the rest of your life, people will torture you by saying how you used to love to draw when you were young. You used to love to paint.

A couple of drinks. A couple asprin. Repeat.[/I]

question first..... Dr toudet? is that the right spelling of the doctor talking about miracles?

Everything is nothing by itself. – Peter Wilmot (BD)
What you don’t understand you can make mean anything - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)
Because everything is important. Every Detail. We just don’t know why yet. - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)
No investment is yours forever. - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)
We learn so little from peace. - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)
You can do this with your mind. - Constaine Burton (BD)
You can repeat the same miracles over and over as long as no one remembers the last time . . . - Dr. Toudet (check name BD)
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way. - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)
The more you know about art, the more it sounds like witchcraft. - Misty Marie Wilmot (BD)

"Cna you feel this?"

[QUOTE=itsamadworld]This is my favorite quote too. I am re-reading Diary right now. It is one of my favorite Chuck books.[/QUOTE]
That's refreshing to hear, welcome.:)

This may reflect poorly on me but this had me in stitches:

[INDENT]On television, a man shouted "[I]Te amo...Te amo...[/I]" again and again to a
dark-haired girl with brown eyes and feathery long eyelashes while he kicked
her down a flight of stairs.[/INDENT]