Chuck Palahniuk - Matter Quotes

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You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

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No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

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Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

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For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

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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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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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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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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

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Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

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