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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it’s the wrong place.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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...”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“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.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“all this is just a power struggle for the spotlight. 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.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic...”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Haunted
“It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“Pretty soon, we'll all have the same thoughts at the same time. We'll be in perfect unison. Synchronized. United. equal. Exact. The way ants are. Insectile. Sheep. ”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
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