Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

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When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

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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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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

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And i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

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No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.

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I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

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As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author.

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The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

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I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

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It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

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Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.

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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

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I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

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How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that's all I did."

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If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

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We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

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This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

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