Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 5

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• Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Consumerism, Lullaby

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.230, Random House

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Who We Are, Choke

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Unique

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Letting Go, Dark, Losing

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Bored, Want

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

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  Scare, Want, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

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  Age, Remember

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Differences, Want, Knows

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• There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

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  Drama, Character, Mean

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

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  Cells, Years, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.342, Random House

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• Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

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  People, Quality, Energy

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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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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  Mom, Son, Mistress

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.15, Random House

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• The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Friday, Sunday, Weekend

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company

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• How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

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  Eye, Shadow, Want

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• Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Addiction, Helping

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Smart, Stupid, Needs

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• The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

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  Fear, Law, Boredom

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

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  Running, Money, Angel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Dying

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Punishment, Long

  "Chuck Palahniuk: 'I Wrote the Book While My Mother Was Dying of Cancer'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2011.

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• Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bullshit, Smoking, Limits

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

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  Past, Escaping, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

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  Night, Vegas, Heaven

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.

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  Jobs, Skills, Life Is

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

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  House, Puppy, Wonder

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.143, Random House

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