Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 17

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world. View quote
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Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. View quote
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What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift. View quote
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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is. View quote
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. View quote
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You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce? View quote
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Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time. View quote
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Love and life belongs to great risk. View quote
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If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion. View quote
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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products. (Chuck Palahniuk)
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property. View quote
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Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang. View quote
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I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not. View quote
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Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness. View quote
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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble. View quote
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears. View quote
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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. View quote
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Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. View quote
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the world is the cradle and your trap. View quote
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you're doomed at being you. (Chuck Palahniuk)
We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about. View quote
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They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so-bad. View quote
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Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide. View quote
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Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism. View quote
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