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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”
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2003
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
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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”
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2003
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
-
1999
“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
-
2003
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Survivor”
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1999
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
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2003
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“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”
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1999
“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Survivor”
-
1999
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Haunted”
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2005
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“The damaged love the damaged.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Snuff”
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2008
“It can only take a moment . . . to waste the rest of your life...”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Snuff”
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2008
“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”
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2003
“Sticking feathers up your butt . . . does not make you a chicken.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
-
1996
“We’re all of us a million bits put together the right way.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
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2003
“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”
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2002
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Survivor”
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1999
“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”
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1999
“Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Lullaby”
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2002
“The job of an artist is just not to forget.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Diary”
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2003
“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”
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1999
“history is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Lullaby”
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2002
“if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Lullaby”
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2002
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Invisible Monsters”
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1999
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Survivor”
-
1999
“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”
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1996
“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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1996
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
“Fight Club”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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
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