Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 25

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Everything is still falling apart. View quote
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A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world. View quote
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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. View quote
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The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen. View quote
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Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts. View quote
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We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me. View quote
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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself. View quote
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you. View quote
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As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person. View quote
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If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Funerals are all abstract ceremony. View quote
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found insideReal intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood. View quote
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If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper. View quote
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Without true chaos, we can never have true peace. View quote
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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. View quote
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Every generation wants to be the last. View quote
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I haven't shoplifted since I was 13. View quote
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I have a lot of money. View quote
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You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. View quote
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable. (Chuck Palahniuk)
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. View quote
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Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless. View quote
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A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection. View quote
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die. View quote
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