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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
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
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
“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
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
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
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it’s the wrong place.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“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
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Snuff
“You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“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
“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
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
“First . . . your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
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
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Haunted
“Some people still think knowledge is power.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Lullaby
“For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character . . . Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Lullaby
“The job of an artist is just not to forget.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
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