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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
“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
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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
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Survivor
“The job of an artist is just not to forget.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“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
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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
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Survivor
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Diary
“There is nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Diary
“First . . . your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“Our real discoveries come from chaos . . . from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“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
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Haunted
“You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
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
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“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
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
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 first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.”
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
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Diary
“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Invisible Monsters
“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
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Diary
“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
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Fight Club
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The truth is... you think what people want you to think.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Haunted
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Diary
“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit . . . They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”
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
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Survivor
“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
“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
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