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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dying, Rich

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Death, Pain, Wall
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.

Chuck Palahniuk
Believe, Law, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

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Guilt, Dinosaurs, Innocence

I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil

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Lying, Love You, Snakes
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Eye, Ideas, People

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

Chuck Palahniuk
Tired, Rich, Enough

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

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

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

Chuck Palahniuk
Rate
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

The future is just wasted on some people.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.100, Random House

Find good in what the world says is evil.

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

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

Chuck Palahniuk
Kings, Home, Giving

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

Chuck Palahniuk
Cancer
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.106, Random House

Every generation wants to be the last.

Chuck Palahniuk
Generations, Want, Lasts
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Chuck Palahniuk
Batteries, Veins, Acid
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Self, Smoking

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

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People, Lifetime, Born
"Rant". Book by Chuck Palahniuk (p.18), 2007.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

Chuck Palahniuk
Missing, Missing It

Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.

Chuck Palahniuk
Littles, Reminders, Built
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Creating, Risk, Attacking
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hate, Persons
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.20, Random House

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

Chuck Palahniuk
Matter, No Matter What, Rant
"Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 31, 2011.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Chuck Palahniuk
Insomnia, Awake

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mistake, News, Good News
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

Chuck Palahniuk
Media, Desire, Culture

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