Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

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We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

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

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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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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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You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

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Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950's. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

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

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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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Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

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I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

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Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

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When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

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If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

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Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

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The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

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What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

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A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

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Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can't kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be

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We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

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