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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
-
1999
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
-
2003
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
-
2003
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Survivor”
-
1999
“You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
-
2003
“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
-
2003
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
-
1996
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
-
1996
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
-
1996
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
-
1996
“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
-
1999
“'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”
-
1999
“If you love something . . . set it free. Just don’t be surprised if it comes back with herpes...”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Haunted”
-
2005
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
-
1999
“Just for the record, the weather today is partly soused with occasional bursts of despair and irritation.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
-
2003
“You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
-
1999
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
-
1999
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