Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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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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So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

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

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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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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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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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To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

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We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.

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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

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So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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