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If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Literature, Want

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk
Future, Promise, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

The answer is there is no answer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Answers, Literature

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

Chuck Palahniuk
One Day, Literature, Realizing

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fake People, Gun, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fall, Reality, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

Chuck Palahniuk
Literature, Feels
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

Chuck Palahniuk
Literature, Sometimes, Human Nature
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Addiction, Literature

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

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

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Chuck Palahniuk
Different, Wake Up, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Chuck Palahniuk
Suicide, Differences, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, Long, Literature

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Chuck Palahniuk
Owning A Pet, Adorable, Literature

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk
Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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