Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 19

This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile. View quote
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Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. View quote
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Everyone's in their own personal coma. View quote
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In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power. View quote
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Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet. View quote
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We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. View quote
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Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday. View quote
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece. View quote
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A book is as private and consensual as sex. View quote
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Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Sorry, mom. Sorry, God. View quote
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere. View quote
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The truth is... you think what people want you to think. View quote
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Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know? View quote
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and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free. View quote
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin. View quote
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She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin. View quote
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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing... View quote
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No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset. View quote
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Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood. (Chuck Palahniuk)
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that. View quote
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The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence. View quote
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The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast. View quote
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Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. View quote
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