Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

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Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

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For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

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Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

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And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

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For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

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When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

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If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.

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The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

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Without just one nest
A bird can call the world home
Life is your career

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No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

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These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

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All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

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I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

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The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

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On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.

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From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

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What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

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What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

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Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

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