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I am nothing, and not even that.

I am nothing, and not even that.

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

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

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Chaos, Choke, True Peace
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

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Art, Clever, Phones

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

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Love Is, Bullshit, Emotion
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

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Forever, Trying, Lasts
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

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Hero, Needs, Want
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

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Art, Artwork

I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

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Ideas, People, Inventory

Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

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Love, Sweat, Climbing

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

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

Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

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Sunday, People, Kind

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

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Artist, Skills, Feelings
"Chuck Palahniuk answers your questions about everything but his books". AV Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors.

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Jobs, Real, Believe

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

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Issues, People, Together

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

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Soon Enough, Expectations, Heaven

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

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God, Christian, Father
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

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Always Trying, Touching, Heartbreaking

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

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

Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s law firms who want to settle injury suits. Or it’s schools offering mail-order vocational degrees to make you a bookkeeper. A private detective. Or a locksmith. If you’re watching daytime television, this is your new demographic. You’re a drunk. Or a cripple. Or an idiot.

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School, Offering, Order

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Sick, Joy
Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

We all have some proper noun to blame.

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Nouns, Blame
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.129, Random House

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

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Thinking, America, Conflict

you're doomed at being you.

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Doomed

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

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Doors, Details, Looks

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

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Spirit, Fight Club Book, Destroying
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.110, Random House

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