I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive let them eat cake type of chauvinism. β¨ Damned. Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.
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- For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. β¨ Chuck Palahniuk (2003). Diary: A Novel, Doubleday Books
- Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. Itβs like stealing something valuable they donβt even know they own. β¨ Chuck Palahniuk (2015). Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread, p.99, β¦ βΆ
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