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We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

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

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Adventure, Order
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.

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

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

Chuck Palahniuk
Suicide, Sense Of Humor, Bent
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

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

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Dark, Would Be

No mat­ter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fall, Trying, Falling Apart
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.

Chuck Palahniuk
God Bless, Bless, Things You Can Control
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

Chuck Palahniuk
Powerful, Real, Believe
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Chuck Palahniuk
Depression, Spiritual, War
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Light, Years
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

Chuck Palahniuk
Night, Reality, Breakfast
"Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Chuck Palahniuk
Self, World, Comfort

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

Chuck Palahniuk
Worst Nightmares, World, Trapped

Most people would never admit it, but they'd been bitching since they were born. As soon as their head popped out into that bright delivery-room light, nothing had been right. Nothing had been as comfortable or felt so good. Just the effort it took to keep your stupid physical body alive, just finding food and cooking it and dishwashing, the keeping warm and bathing and sleeping, the walking and bowel movements and ingrown hairs, it was all getting to be too much work.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stupid, Sleep, Light

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Next, Scene

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sex, Drinking, Knowledge
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stupidest
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I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Giving, People
Source: www.esquire.com

I hate how on TV they have to fill so many minutes. It means they have to put in anything, and by doing so they sort of trivialize news; news becomes this commodity that they need to fill dead time between commercials with.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hate, Mean, Needs
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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Years, People
San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 30, 2002.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

Chuck Palahniuk
Want Something, Parent, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.202, W. W. Norton & Company

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Up, Fall, Sleep
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

The things you used to own, now they own you.

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

If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, Want, Invisible
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.214, Random House

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