Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 20

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. View quote
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The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash. View quote
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The magic of sex is its acquisition without the burden of possessions. No matter how many women you take home, theres no storage problem. View quote
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Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that. View quote
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The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves. View quote
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art. View quote
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Getting fired,' Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives. View quote
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This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. View quote
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People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk. View quote
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This isn't really death,' Tyler says. ‘We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires. (Chuck Palahniuk)
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against. View quote
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I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm. View quote
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Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. View quote
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. View quote
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No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy. View quote
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How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. View quote
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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products. View quote
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you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product. View quote
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine. View quote
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For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor. View quote
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You are permanent, but this life is not," Mr. Whittier would say. "You don't expect to visit an amusement park, then stay forever. View quote
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Still, he deserved to die. He called me an asshole. View quote
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In order to save the world, Jesus Christ suffered for about thirty-six hours on the cross. I am willing to suffer an eternity in hell for the same cause. View quote
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