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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

Chuck Palahniuk
Blue, Dollars, Velvet
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Retrospect, Versions
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

The more things you own, the more they own you.

Chuck Palahniuk

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Migrants, Immigration
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

Chuck Palahniuk
Special, Snowflake, Fight Club Book
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Too Much, Temples
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Heart, Cutting

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

Chuck Palahniuk
Believe, America, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.195, Random House

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mom, Dream, Dad

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Feelings, Everyday
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.32, Random House

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Chuck Palahniuk
Sobriety, Stuff, Someday
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

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

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Chuck Palahniuk
Men, Waiting, Tables
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Chuck Palahniuk
Ignorance, Differences, Mind
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sleep, Insomnia

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Chuck Palahniuk
Different, Wake Up, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

Chuck Palahniuk
Smile, Long, Teeth
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.164, W. W. Norton & Company

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sorry, People, Broken
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Chuck Palahniuk
Pain, Sacrifice, Space
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hurt, May, Stones
"Lullaby". Chapter 14. Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

Chuck Palahniuk
Excuse, Reason, Be Good

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Up, Addiction, Tough
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.21, Random House

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Chuck Palahniuk
Motivational, Voice, Hell

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Hurt, Doe
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

You don’t care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stupid, Kids, Responsibility
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.115, Random House

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