Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 12

We're the culture that cried wolf. (Chuck Palahniuk)
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know. View quote
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So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell! View quote
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It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease. View quote
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When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road. View quote
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Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television. View quote
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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it. View quote
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare? View quote
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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them. View quote
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I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior. View quote
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened. (Chuck Palahniuk)
In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you. View quote
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No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities. View quote
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled? View quote
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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object. View quote
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Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us," Mr Whittier says, "It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences. View quote
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I do hereby and forever abandon abandoning all hope. Honestly, I give up on giving up. I'm just not cut out to be some hopeless, disillusioned wretch with no aspirations for the rest of the eternity, sprawled catatonic in my own feces on a cold stone floor. In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple of days of hopelessness. Future scientists would call it Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case of history chasing rainbows. View quote
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth. View quote
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Our footsteps echo against the concrete floor. The steel roof hums with rain. And she says, 'Don't you feel, somehow, buried in history? (Chuck Palahniuk)
Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise," he says, "you'll always be controlled by the world. View quote
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According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy. View quote
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Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. View quote
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Doctor Sarah didn't start out by attacking and berating everybody who called her radio show," Mona says. "She used to have a little time slot and a little audience, and she seemed to really care about helping people." View quote
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