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Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your

Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.

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Eye, Wrinkles, Hair
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

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

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

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Growing Up, Live Life, Kids
"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey, 2007.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

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Caring, Ownership, Property Ownership
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

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I Like You, Believe, Thinking

Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be

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Kissing, Want, Lips
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.

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

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.

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Beautiful, People, World

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.

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Want, Matter, Way

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

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Thinking, Television, Metaphor
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

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Nice, Mean, Broken
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

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

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

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Taken, Ideas, Creating

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

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Pain, Mean, Artist

you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

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Teacher, People, Car
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.217, W. W. Norton & Company

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

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

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

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Ideas, Being Free, Bears
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

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Dope, Laughing, Cry
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.121, Random House

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

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People, Track, Laughing
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.15, Random House

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?

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Procrastination, Reincarnation, Form

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

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Jobs, Children, Sunset
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.19, Random House

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

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Writing, Simple, Shy

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

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Change, People, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

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Makeup, Islands, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.33, Random House

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

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Pain, Stanislavski, Knows
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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