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Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Chuck Palahniuk
Men, Granted, Knows

It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

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Thinking, Sky, Standing
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

I would pay snakes to bite her.

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Snakes, Pay, Bites
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.

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

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

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Years, Feelings, Might
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.213, W. W. Norton & Company

Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hair, Use, Want
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Boys, Doe

Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

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People, House, Matter
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

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Fate, Night, Escaping
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

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Baby, Character, Play

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

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Truth Is, You Choose
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Diary”, p.177, Random House

Proof that no investment is yours forever.

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Forever, Investment, Proof
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Years, Easy, Choke

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

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Beautiful, Giving, Soul
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

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Hero, Epic, Climbing

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

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World
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Chuck Palahniuk
Single, Real, Adventure
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

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

Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.

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Heart, Flats

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

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Things You Love, Knows, Dies
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.12, Random House

With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out. "Long-term or short-term?" she asks. Both. "Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after." Really? "Really," she says. "So don't sweat it.

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

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mom, Sorry
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

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People, Want, Knows
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.106, Random House

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Chuck Palahniuk
Talking, Miracle, Next
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.146, Random House

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Can Do

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