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To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Writing, Mean

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Heart, Practice
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.3, Random House

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

Chuck Palahniuk
Trying, Bars, Stories
"Fright club" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2005.

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

Chuck Palahniuk
I Still Love Him, Estrogen, Stills
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.140, Random House

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

Chuck Palahniuk
Zombie, Made, Iceberg

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Gun, Mouths
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Chuck Palahniuk
Rooms, Firsts, Owners

Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stories, Use
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Chuck Palahniuk
Motor Oil, Years, Feet
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Chuck Palahniuk
Doe, Patterns, Sometimes

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

Chuck Palahniuk
Selling, Establishment, Selling Out
"I dare you" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2004.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Long, Literature

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Chuck Palahniuk
House, Tudors, Burning Down
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

We just had a near-life experience!

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

I have a lot of money.

Chuck Palahniuk
Lots Of Money

A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine

Chuck Palahniuk
Mind, Machines, Stories

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk
World, Lifetime, Contentious

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stories, Use, Nonfiction

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

Chuck Palahniuk
Smart, Mean, Bisexual
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Nice, Book
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.19, Random House

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, War, Cancer

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Boys, Able

I am Jack's smirking revenge.

Chuck Palahniuk
Revenge
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Chuck Palahniuk
Sauce, Wonder, Coming Back
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

Everything is still falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fall, Falling Apart, Stills
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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