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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

Chuck Palahniuk
Heart, Knives, Too Late
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Giving, Narrators

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Laughing, Silence

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

Chuck Palahniuk
Interview with Chuck Palahniuk, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

Chuck Palahniuk
Pain, Mean, Wings

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Thinking, Phrases

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

Chuck Palahniuk
Good Friend, Forever, Want
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drunk, Attention, Half
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Chuck Palahniuk
Pigs, Males, Born
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

Chuck Palahniuk
Couple, Aspirin, Drink
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

Chuck Palahniuk
Death, Lying, Animal

Don’t ask me when be­cause I don’t re­mem­ber, but some­where along the way I keep for­get­ting to com­mit sui­cide.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mit, Way, Causes
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, Brandy, Thousand
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.226, W. W. Norton & Company

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Stealing

Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.

Chuck Palahniuk
Taught, Worthless, Values
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Kids, Men, Practice
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.52, Random House

The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Religious, Growing Up

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Sequels
"A chat about the novel 'Fight Club'", www.cnn.com. October 27, 1999.

This is passive-aggression in action.

Chuck Palahniuk
Action, Aggression, Passive
"Survivor". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

Chuck Palahniuk
Song, Faces, Empty

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

Chuck Palahniuk
Heart, Mean, Feelings

Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Ice Cream, Ideas

You always kill the one you love.

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

Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.

Chuck Palahniuk
Scar, Horror, Memento
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.22, Random House

I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

Chuck Palahniuk
Likes, Figures, Mess

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