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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

Chuck Palahniuk
Future, Yesterday, Tomorrow
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

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Punchlines, Jokes
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.138, W. W. Norton & Company

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

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Jobs, Skills, Valuable
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

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Being Alone, People, Together
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

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Fake People, Real, Opera
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

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Car, Choices, Crash

The lucky ones are just born dead.

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Lucky, Born

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.

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Brother, Dancing, Singing
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

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Skills, Knowing, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

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Fall, Lost Everything, Disaster

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

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Coffins, Alive, Roof

Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

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Falling In Love, People, Soup

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

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Jesus, Fight Club Novel, Written
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

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Dog, Thinking, Reality
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.246, Random House

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

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Jobs, Hate, Tricks

And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored.

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Believe, Bored, Doe
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

Art never comes from happiness.

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Art
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

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Daughter, Mother, Jobs
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

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Ears, Imagine, Plague
"Casting Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby?" by Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. August 31, 2008.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

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Together, Hammers, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

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Want, Forgotten
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

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Like Love, Looks, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.189, W. W. Norton & Company

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

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Falling In Love, Order, People

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

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Coma
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

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Life, Stories, Chance
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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