Chuck Palahniuk - Invisible Monsters (1999)

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.

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

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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

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And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

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The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

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Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

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Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.

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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

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New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

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And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

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When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

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On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

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What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

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Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

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The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

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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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You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

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

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