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Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Hard Times, Past

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Stories, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Forget The Past, Way

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Way
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.273, Random House

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Your Future, Our Future
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Giving Up, Past
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Moving, Past

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Chuck Palahniuk
Truth, Past, Stories
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.208, Random House

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Thinking, Phrases

Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Ice Cream, Ideas

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Chaos, Sometimes

I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mistake, Past, Stories
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