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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
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
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
“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
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions . . . because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“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
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
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 only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Fight Club
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
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
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
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
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
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
“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.”
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
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
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
“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
“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
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Lullaby
“Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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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
“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. . . . Maybe self-destruction is the answer.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Snuff
“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“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
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Invisible Monsters
“you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“People can’t conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can’t conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you’re stronger, it’s so much easier to imagine you’re weaker.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Survivor
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Make me into anything, but just love me.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
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