Chuck Palahniuk - Love Quotes

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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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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

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All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

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

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

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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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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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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

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

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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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At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

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If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

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That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.

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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

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No way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations.

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If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

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How can you possibly believe he really loves you? Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier's hand. You have no choice, Mr. Whittier tells her. If you need to be loved.

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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

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Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

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I love being with people. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. And the religion's leaders model a way of being. For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night – as does the narrator in Fight Club. Here's Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers. That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public.

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