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What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

Chuck Palahniuk
Art, School, Life Is
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mind, Stories, Resentment
"Novelist Chuck Palahniuk". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 28, 2010.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

Chuck Palahniuk
House, Puppy, Wonder
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.143, Random House

My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Skills, Life Is
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

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

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

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

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

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

How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

Chuck Palahniuk
Eye, Shadow, Want

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mistake, Smart, Choices

I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Notebook, Writing, Weather
Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Luxury, Missing, Matter
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

Chuck Palahniuk
Reality, Law, Skills

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

Chuck Palahniuk
Taken, Fate, Knowing
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sad, Rejects You, Rejection
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.17, Random House

If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dream, Lonely, Book
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hell, Delivery
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.61, Random House

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

Chuck Palahniuk
Believe, Punishment, Long
"Chuck Palahniuk: 'I Wrote the Book While My Mother Was Dying of Cancer'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Chuck Palahniuk
One Day, Literature, Realizing

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Chuck Palahniuk
School, Medicine, Drug
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Chuck Palahniuk
Queens, Bees, Drones
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Laughing, Way

If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

Chuck Palahniuk
Forgiving, Stories, Done
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

Which is worse, hell or nothing?

Chuck Palahniuk
Hell
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Chuck Palahniuk
Love, Success, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

Chuck Palahniuk
My Friends

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