Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

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No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

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It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

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And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

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What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

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