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Survivor quotes

Chuck Palahniuk

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“the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“'Does it hurt very much to die? ' Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“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
“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
“It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“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
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can’t feel a thing.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“I can’t stand the idea of being alone. I can’t bear the thought of being free.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“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, Survivor
“My whole life is about forgetting. It’s my most valuable job skill.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“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
“Pretty soon, we'll all have the same thoughts at the same time. We'll be in perfect unison. Synchronized. United. equal. Exact. The way ants are. Insectile. Sheep. ” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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