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Make me into anything, but just love me.

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters, Just Love Me, Big Hair
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.144, Random House

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Chuck Palahniuk
Optimism, Disease, Firsts

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Chuck Palahniuk
Growing Up, Stupid, Phases
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Hate, Needs
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

Chuck Palahniuk
Philosophy, Tragedy, Life Is
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.108, Random House

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Waiting In Line, People, Looks
"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Chuck Palahniuk
Matter, Walks, Stills
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.17, Random House

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Clubs, About Yourself
"Fight Club". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 1999.

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, War, Cutting

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Inspire, Waste

Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Novelists, Records
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, People, Enthusiasm
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.101, Random House

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

Chuck Palahniuk
Loses

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.

Chuck Palahniuk
Lonely, Progress, Fields

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

Chuck Palahniuk
Regret, Confirmation, Daisies

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Details, Kind
Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Doe, Movement
Source: www.slashfilm.com

More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Defining, Overcoming
Source: www.3ammagazine.com

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Worst Enemy, Age, Choke
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Life is short, death is forever

Chuck Palahniuk
Life Is Short, Forever, Life Is

New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.

Chuck Palahniuk
Years, Two, Feelings

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Useless, Someday, Knows
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.76, Random House

It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Years, Skins

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stories, Moments, Who You Are

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

Chuck Palahniuk
Atheist, Jesus, Atheism
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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