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Believe in me and die forever.

Believe in me and die forever.

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Believe, Forever, Believe In Me

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

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Waiting, World, Disaster
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

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Beautiful, Ozone, Ozone Layer
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

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Girl, Shadow, Records
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

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Queens, Stupid, Moving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

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Sadness, Bad Day, Closing Up

you can make mean anything.

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Mean
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

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Love You

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.

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Sex, Writing, Bored

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

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Couple, School, Doe

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

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Father, Models

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

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Mom, Dream, Dad
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.28, Random House

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

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Alive, Reputation, Praise
Chuck Palahniuk (2009). “Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey”, Anchor Canada

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

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Names, Giving, Labels
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

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Jobs, Skills, Valuable
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

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Barbie Dolls, Car, Vacuums

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

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Haunting
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.6, Random House

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

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Action, Emotion, Ifs
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Love and life belongs to great risk.

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Life And Love, Risk, Great Risk

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

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

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

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Fighting, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.53, Random House

Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.

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Long, Tanning, Problem
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

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Our World, People, World

I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.

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Party, People, Forever

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Chuck Palahniuk
Crush, Girl, Running

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