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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sad, Wisdom, Freedom
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.

Chuck Palahniuk
Insecurity, Demon, Prey
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

Chuck Palahniuk
Special, How You Feel, Embrace

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dark, Ruins, Standing

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

Chuck Palahniuk
Littles, Hello, Wallets

Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Imagine, Whole Life
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dollar Bills, Dollars, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dream, Years, Design

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dream, People, Goes On
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.

Chuck Palahniuk
Weather, Today, Resignation
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight Club" all the sex happens off-screen. It's all just a noise on the other side of the wall or the ceiling. I just couldn't bring to write in a scene like that. So one of the challenges with "Choke" was I wanted to write sex scenes until I was really comfortable just writing them in a very mechanical way.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sex, Wall, Writing
"Chuck Palahnuik On "Choke"". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

Chuck Palahniuk
Age, Lasts, Taste
Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.

Chuck Palahniuk
Emotional, Weather, Today
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Roles, World
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Chuck Palahniuk
Next, Stage, Form
Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

Chuck Palahniuk
Self, Portraits, Diaries
"Diary". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.litro.co.uk. 2003.

Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Stupid, Silly
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving, Photographer, Release
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

Chuck Palahniuk
Baby, Talking, Giving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and interact with people. It's very much like an archival process. I understand that the Brothers Grimm would go out and get people talking so they could document folk tales that weren't being documented any other way. I try to offer a little bit of myself - some experience from my life that evokes stories in other people.

Chuck Palahniuk
Brother, Writing, Talking
Source: www.writersdigest.com

Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.

Chuck Palahniuk
Records, Feels Right, Right Now
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Failing, Dramatic
"Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Drinking, Glasses
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Chuck Palahniuk
Wall, Men, Shadow
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk
Culture, Ghost, Contributing
"20 Q&As: Chuck Palahniuk". Interview with Stuart Hammond, www.dazeddigital.com. September 26, 2011.

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