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You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beauty, Beautiful, Unique
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Chuck Palahniuk
Letting Go, Dark, Losing
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Ideas, Issues
Source: www.bookslut.com

I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

Chuck Palahniuk
Differences, Want, Knows

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Silence, Needs
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

Chuck Palahniuk
Age, Remember
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Chuck Palahniuk
Revenge, Long, Details

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

Chuck Palahniuk
Needs, Choke, Pathetic
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

Chuck Palahniuk
Emotional, Choices, Vulnerable
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, People, Events
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.117, Random House

There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Character, Mean
Source: www.bookslut.com

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Bored, Want
"Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk
Cells, Years, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.342, Random House

Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Quality, Energy
Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

Chuck Palahniuk
Spring, Ideas, Drunk
"Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.sfgate.com. 2008.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

Chuck Palahniuk
Night, Vegas, Heaven
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

Chuck Palahniuk
Smart, Stupid, Needs

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

Chuck Palahniuk
Wonder, Realizing, Lows
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Escaping, Denial
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Money, Angel
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mom, Son, Mistress
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.15, Random House

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fear, Law, Boredom
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Up, Addiction, Helping
"Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Chuck Palahniuk
Way, Impossible, Easy
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

Chuck Palahniuk
Animal, Holocaust, Survivor

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