No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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I had a choice. My instincts told me to hurry up and give the choking man the Heimlich maneuver. My brain told me to stay still until he expired and chalk this one up to divine intervention.

~ Dinah Katt

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Some mysterious revenge of nature has seen to it that no poem in praise of drink or tobacco (or snuff, if any) can succeed.

~ Kingsley Amis

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Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

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