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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
“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
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
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
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“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
“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
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
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
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The job of an artist is just not to forget.”
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
“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
“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“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 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
“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
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“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
“Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don’t throw yourself down the stairs, that’s a choice. Every time you don’t crash your car, you reenlist.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”
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
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“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
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