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Our real discoveries come from chaos.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.

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Real, Discovery, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.258, Random House

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

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

During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.

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War, Hair, Soldier

The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.

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Kissing, Boys, Littles
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.96, Random House

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

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Dream, Kids, Alive
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.53, Random House

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

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

Maybe we should always assume the worst.

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Assuming, Should, Worst
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

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Views, Forever, Obsolescence

How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.

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Dirty, Used, Feels
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.56, Random House

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

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Giving, Romance, Denial
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

Now is the autumn of our ennui.

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Autumn, Ennui
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.76, Random House

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

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College, Students, Drink

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

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Stars, Flirty, Looks
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

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Children, Child Of God, Lunatic

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

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Parent, Want, Folks
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

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Children, Childhood, Adults
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.62, Random House

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

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Giving, Forever, Experts

And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

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Fall, Insomnia, Track

That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.

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Thinking, Echoes, Scary Stories

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

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Suicide, Missing, Stories

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

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Owning A Pet, Adorable, Literature

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

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Dark, Black And White, Light

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

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Happiness, Moon, Ideas
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

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

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

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Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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