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It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beach, Stars, Sky
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Crazy, Looks, Littles
Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.73, Anchor

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Chuck Palahniuk
Vocabulary, Dialogue, Powerless
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sorry, Littles, Desperate
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

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

Suicide is very contagious.

Chuck Palahniuk
Suicide, Contagious
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

Chuck Palahniuk
Stars, Moon, White

Love is a skill you learn.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love Is, Skills
"Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 31, 2011.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mother, Father, Caring
"Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 20, 2008.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Snowflake, Fight Club Book, Walnuts
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.207, W. W. Norton & Company

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.

Chuck Palahniuk
Creativity, Exercise, Simple
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

Chuck Palahniuk
Rights, Sitting, Littles

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

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

It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

Chuck Palahniuk
Nice, Feels Right, Right Now
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Crazy, Cancer
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hair, Shopping, Worship You
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple days of hopelessness. Future scientists will call it the Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case history of chasing rainbows.

Chuck Palahniuk
Couple, Best Effort, Chasing Rainbows
"Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.

Chuck Palahniuk
Summer, Girl, Nice
"Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Library, Should
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.203, Random House

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

Chuck Palahniuk
Rejects You, Proud, Trash
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.201, Random House

I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

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

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Chuck Palahniuk
Single, College, Married
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.62, Random House

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Vampire, Legends
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Chuck Palahniuk
Nice, Mouths, Used

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mother, Soap, Ignore Me
"Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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