Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 6

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
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Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.
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This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.
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I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
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Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
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Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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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.
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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
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My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
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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.
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We just had a near-life experience!
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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
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Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it.How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages....The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
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At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
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No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
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What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
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Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
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Make me into anything, but just love me.
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I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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