Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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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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There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

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When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

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All my friends with PalmPilots and cell phones, they're always calling themselves and leaving reminders to themselves about what's about to happen. We leave Post-it notes for ourselves. We go to that shop in the mall, the one where they engrave whatever shit you want on a silver-plated box or a fountain pen, and we get a reminder for every special event that life goes by too fast for us to remember. We buy those picture frames where you record a message on a sound chip. We videotape everything! Oh, and now there's those digital cameras, so we can all email around our photos — this century's equivalent of the boring vacation slide show. We organize and reorganize. We record and archive.

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You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

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The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...

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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

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