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I don't want to die without a few scars.

I don't want to die without a few scars.

Chuck Palahniuk
Bravery, Want, Scar
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

Chuck Palahniuk
Emotional, Realization, Chaos
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Long, Enemy, World
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk (Chapter 22), September 17, 2002.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fluid
"Palahniuk helps readers (and now filmgoers) find 'Romance'". Interview with Marc Mohan, www.oregonlive.com. August 25, 2013.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Chuck Palahniuk
Males, Generations, Flattery

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beauty, Wall, Gun
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.

Chuck Palahniuk
Silly, Empty Rooms, Hysteria
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.

Chuck Palahniuk
Inspiration, Needs, Disease
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.

Chuck Palahniuk
Looks, Body, X Files

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Hate, Real
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.

Chuck Palahniuk
Eye, Skins, Looks
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Forget The Past, Way

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, About Yourself, Asks
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.189, W. W. Norton & Company

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.

Chuck Palahniuk
Erosion, Rocks, People

It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

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

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

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

Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Chuck Palahniuk
Lying, Ceilings, Coffins

I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Growing Up, Fate
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.197, W. W. Norton & Company

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Chuck Palahniuk
Feel Better, Games, Useless
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Surprise, Moments
"Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Chuck Palahniuk
Sex, Teenager, Funny Relationship
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Doubt, Wish
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.207, Random House

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

Chuck Palahniuk
Bravery, Want, Scar
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.48, Random House

There will always be an underground.

Chuck Palahniuk
"Chuck Palahniuk answers your questions about everything but his books". www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

Chuck Palahniuk
Makeup, Skins, Cosmetics
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.22, Random House

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