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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Money, Angel
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Self, Smoking

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Chuck Palahniuk
Change, Running, Fighting
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Anxiety, Drug
Source: www.buzzfeed.com

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Chuck Palahniuk
Crush, Girl, Running

These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, Running, Couple
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Filling Up, Half
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Fall, Want You Back
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Fun, Book
Source: content.time.com

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