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I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Interesting, Sound
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.181, Random House

Sex pretty much cures everything.

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

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.

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Hate, Like You, Possibility
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.

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Sex, Married, Boring
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk
Being Alone, Character, Boring
Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

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People, Waiting, Dying

Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

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Because I Can, Bottom, Saved
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.22, Random House

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

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Past, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.273, Random House

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

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People, Say Anything, Invisible Monsters
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

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Light, Events, Facts

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

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Blood, Looks, Hello

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love Is, Rocks, Bullshit

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

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Beautiful, Mother, Powerful
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Chuck Palahniuk
Practice, Surfing, Dying
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.1, Random House

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Father, Character
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

Chuck Palahniuk
Believe, Stories, Moments
Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

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Alarms, Television, Clock
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

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Looks, Way, Waste
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

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

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Chuck Palahniuk
Becoming One, Stories, Becoming

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hate, Evil, Giving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

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Monsters, Victim, Witness
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

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Wall, Real, Facts

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

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Feet, Invisible Monsters, Disaster
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

Chuck Palahniuk
Art, Mean, Men
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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