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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.

The damaged love the damaged. True fact.

Chuck Palahniuk
Facts, True Fact
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Snuff”, p.25, Random House

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Chuck Palahniuk
Suicide, Dying, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, People, Up To You

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Home, Careers
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why I'm sort of automatically thrown to be a certain way.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Unpacking, Way
Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hero, Kids, Government
"Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Distance, Insomnia, Far Away
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.21, Random House

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

Chuck Palahniuk
Kids, Thinking, Space
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Chuck Palahniuk
Taken, Ideas, Pieces
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.111, Random House

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

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Love Is, Bullshit, Soul
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, People, House

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

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Death, Firsts, Steps
"Fight Club: A Novel". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

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Growing Up, Parent, Proof
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.33, Random House

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

Chuck Palahniuk
Advice, Scare, World
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

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

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Chuck Palahniuk
Moving, Thinking, Jumping

In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Worry, Ends

Some people still think knowledge is power.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, People, Knowledge Is Power
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.35, Random House

I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fall, Thinking, Leaving
Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

Chuck Palahniuk
Death, People, Dying
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Chuck Palahniuk
Toxic Waste, Dancing, Singing
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.169, Random House

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Thinking, Offensive
"I dare you" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2004.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fun, Thinking, Masturbation
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

Chuck Palahniuk
War, Dark, Years

As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dream, Jobs, Kids
"'It's Paula-nick'". Online Q&A, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.

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