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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
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“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
,
Fight Club
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
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
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
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
“First . . . your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
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
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second, you're an object. I am nothing, and not even that.”
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
“On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Haunted
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn’t such a great skill to have.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Diary
“Make me into anything, but just love me.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“Maybe we should always assume the worst.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“I can’t stand the idea of being alone. I can’t bear the thought of being free.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“'Does it hurt very much to die? ' Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Survivor
“Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
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