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The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Father, Tired, Air

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Chuck Palahniuk
Taxes, Knows

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Chuck Palahniuk
Here I Am, Good As It Gets
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

Chuck Palahniuk
Long, Cry, Faking It
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dark, Hands, Cry
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

Chuck Palahniuk
Morning, Murder, Turns
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

Chuck Palahniuk
Memories, Useless, Auctions
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

Chuck Palahniuk
Havens

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Chuck Palahniuk
Teacher, Plato, Soul
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Men, People, Next

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

Chuck Palahniuk
Feelings, Starting, Starting Point
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.243, Random House

Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hair, Forever, Insane

As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Believe, Play

This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

His computer password is "password.

Chuck Palahniuk
Computer, Passwords
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.13, Random House

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.

Chuck Palahniuk
Brother, Cities, Ideas

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Chuck Palahniuk
Rain, Acres, Forests

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Chuck Palahniuk
Change, Running, Fighting
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Chuck Palahniuk
Want, Claire

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

Chuck Palahniuk
Christmas, Flower, Light
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

You are permanent, but this life is not.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life Is, This Life, Permanent
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.103, Random House

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.

Chuck Palahniuk
Wall, Hair, Smell
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Suffering, Torture, Humiliation
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

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

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

Chuck Palahniuk
Reality, Thinking, Want

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