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Chuck Palahniuk quotes
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“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
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 goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“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
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Diary
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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
,
Fight Club
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Because beauty is power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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
“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“the idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
,
Lullaby
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“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
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
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
“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Some people still think knowledge is power.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Lullaby
“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
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Lullaby
“the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“It can only take a moment . . . to waste the rest of your life...”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“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
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
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