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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Chuck Palahniuk
Inspirational, Fighting, Settling
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

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Priorities, Legs, Hell

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk
Depression, Spiritual, War
"Bruise Control". www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2000.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Hard Times, Past

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Waiting, Turns

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

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Inspiring, Effort, Inspire
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Stories, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk
Inspirational, Fear, Taking Action

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

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Life, Literature, Want

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

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Ideas

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

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Life, Laughing, Inspire
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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Giving, Parent, Trying
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

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Realizing

Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.

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Self, Answers, Improvement

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

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Love, Relationship, Boyfriend
FaceBook post by Chuck Palahniuk from Aug 19, 2013

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

Chuck Palahniuk
Letting Go, Trying, Hitting Bottom
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

Chuck Palahniuk
Looks, Trust Me, Moments

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, People, Scary
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

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Life, People, Expectations
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.6, Random House

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Stranger

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Dream, I Hate You
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Loving Life, People

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Life, Dream
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep...wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you....The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, Stars, Lying

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