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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
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
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
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
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
“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it’s the wrong place.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
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
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Snuff
“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
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“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
“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
“You can only hold a real smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
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
“The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”
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
“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
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“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
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
“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
“for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“I'm an invisible monster, and I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
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
“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”
Chuck Palahniuk
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Haunted
“the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Some people still think knowledge is power.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Lullaby
“On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Fight Club
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Diary
“My life is not some Funeral Grade bit of compost that will rot tomorrow and be outlived by my name in an obituary. ”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Survivor
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