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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
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Diary
“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
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“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
,
Fight Club
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Our real discoveries come from chaos . . . from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
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 job of an artist is just not to forget.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
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
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
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
“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
,
Survivor
“Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”
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
“Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can’t understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into...”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“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
“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
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Snuff
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Snuff
“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
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“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
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
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