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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
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What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
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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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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.
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Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
February 21, 1962
(age 62)
Bio:
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
Known for:
Fight Club (1996)
Invisible Monsters (1999)
Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey (2007)
Survivor (1999)
Damned (2011)
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