Chuck Palahniuk - Feel Quotes

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More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.

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No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

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Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

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What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

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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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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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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

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You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

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Imagine how you'd feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn't stand.

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It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.

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For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

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Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

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The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...

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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

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Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

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