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You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Your Future, Our Future
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you’d die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you’re thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they’re doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Blood, Effort

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

Chuck Palahniuk
Perfection, Moments

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Chuck Palahniuk
Issues, Hollies, Identity
Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Giving Up, Past
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

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

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk
Ignorance, World, Easier
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Doe, Clubs
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

The damaged loves the damaged.

Chuck Palahniuk
Snuff
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.24, Random House

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Addiction, Literature

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

Chuck Palahniuk
Home, Breathing, Funeral
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Hurt, Way

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

Chuck Palahniuk
War, Issues, Population

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

Chuck Palahniuk
Teaching, Fire, Damage Control

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Character, Idiot
"Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

Chuck Palahniuk
Nice, Secret, Persons

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Alcohol, Able

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Chuck Palahniuk
World, Asks
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Chuck Palahniuk
Magic, Special, World
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Chuck Palahniuk
Names, Wipe, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Risk, Young

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Worst Enemy, Upset, Causes
Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Watches, World
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sick, Aspirin, Notes

At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love You, Hair, People

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