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It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dark, Night, Reality
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Chuck Palahniuk
World, Way, Stories
Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sex, Writing, Difficult

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Chuck Palahniuk
Worry, Disaster, Mausoleum
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Chuck Palahniuk
Friday, Sunday, Weekend
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Dying
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When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sadness, Drunk, Worry
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Chuck Palahniuk
Opposites, People, Firsts
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

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Degrees, Depends
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.122, Random House

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Chuck Palahniuk
Spiritual, Strong, Jobs
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Thinking, Two
"Novelist Chuck Palahniuk". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 28, 2010.

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

Chuck Palahniuk
Self, Hands, Giving
"Diary". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 26, 2003.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Chuck Palahniuk
Exercise, Ideas, Remarkable
"Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Chuck Palahniuk
Inspirational, Change, Dream
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

Chuck Palahniuk
Scare, Want, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Chuck Palahniuk
Crazy, Stupid, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.98, Anchor

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

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Journey, People, Steps
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

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

I don't want to die without any scars.

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

If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Chuck Palahniuk
Grateful, Thinking, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Optimistic, Bored
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk
World, Who We Are, Choke
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

Chuck Palahniuk
Want, Consumerism, Lullaby
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.230, Random House

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Thinking, Blood
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Chuck Palahniuk
Becoming, Invisible Monsters, Becoming God
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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