Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 13

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• Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.

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  Eye, Wrinkles, Hair

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

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• Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

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  Issues, Hollies, Identity

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

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• It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

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  Creativity, Criticism, Easy

  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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• I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

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  Fun, Interesting, Sound

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.181, Random House

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• Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

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  Past, Chaos, Sometimes

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• This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

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  Museums, Burning, Letters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.29, Random House

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• After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

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  Boys, Two, Giving

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

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  Makeup, Islands, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.33, Random House

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• Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

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  Change, People, Way

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

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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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  Coffins, Alive, Roof

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• The lucky ones are just born dead.

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  Lucky, Born

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• Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

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  Falling In Love, People, Soup

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• Everyone's in their own personal coma.

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  Coma

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

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• Sex pretty much cures everything.

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  Sex, Cures

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

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• What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.

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  Hate, Like You, Possibility

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Like Love, Looks, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.189, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

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  Falling In Love, Order, People

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• Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.

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  Sex, Married, Boring

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

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  Life, Stories, Chance

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

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• The more things you own, the more they own you.

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• The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

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  People, Migrants, Immigration

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

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• The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

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  Being Alone, Character, Boring

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

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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.

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  People, Waiting, Dying

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• Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

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  Because I Can, Bottom, Saved

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.22, Random House

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• We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

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  Special, Snowflake, Fight Club Book

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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