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Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.

Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.

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Wealth, Nothing To Lose, Loses

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

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Future, Promise, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

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

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

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Mistake, Trying, Birth Life
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.264, Random House

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

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Real, Smart, People

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

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Air, Weather, Bullshit
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Diary”, p.140, Random House

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

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Feels, Right Now, Died
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

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Positive, Positivity, Sometimes
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

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Mean, Animal, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.290, Random House

We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

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Inspiring, Travel, Tonight

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

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Brother, Dancing, Imagination
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

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Practice, Surfing, Television
"Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

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Night, Long

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

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Fate, People, Brilliant

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

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Resolution, Ifs

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

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Fun, Real, Knowing Nothing
"Chuck Palahniuk Answers Your Questions About Everything but His Books". Answers to A.V. Club readers' questions, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

The answer is there is no answer.

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Life, Answers, Literature

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

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Delusion, Dies

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

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Heart, Laughing, Stories
"Stranger than Fiction: True Stories". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, June 15, 2004.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

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Mistake, Writing, Adventure

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

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Doe, Watches, Variables
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

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Eye, Insanity, Enlightenment
"A chat about the novel 'Fight Club'". www.cnn.com. October 27, 1999.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

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Mirrors, Differences, People
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk (p. 144), May 3, 2005.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

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Parenting, Opiates, Parenthood
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

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Honesty, World, Boring

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