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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Chuck Palahniuk
Wall, Gun, Brain
Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.

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Heart, Broken, Surprise

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

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Truth, Shining, Looks
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

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Fake People, Gun, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

Chuck Palahniuk
Smart, Stupid, Teaching
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

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Fall, Reality, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.

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Girl, Sweet, Jail
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

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

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

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People, Laughing, These Days
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

Chuck Palahniuk
Winning, Race, People
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

Alternating the thoughtful task of writing with the mindless work of laundry or dish washing will give you the breaks you need for new ideas and insights to occur. If you don't know what comes next in the story... clean your toilet. Change the bed sheets. For Christ sakes, dust the computer. A better idea will come.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Thoughtful, Dust

You can’t fool people into loving you.

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People, Loving You, Fool
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Reality, What If
"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Beautiful, Unique
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.

Chuck Palahniuk
Land, Mum

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

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Literature, Sometimes, Human Nature
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

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Fake, Criticism, Use
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.111, Random House

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

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People, Inventory, Save Me
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.143, W. W. Norton & Company

Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.

Chuck Palahniuk
Needs, Stories, Our Lives
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.137, Random House

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Chuck Palahniuk
Leader, Guilt, Bangs

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Chuck Palahniuk
True Evil, Rejection, Atrocities

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, People, Want

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

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Couple, Thinking, Years
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.97, Random House

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.

Chuck Palahniuk
Death, Nice, Angel
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Recycling
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.104, W. W. Norton & Company

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