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That big glorious mountain. For one transitory moment, I think I may have actually seen it". For one flash, the Mommy had seen the mountain without thinking of logging and ski resorts and avalanches, managed wildlife, plate tectonic geology, microclimates, rain shadow, or yin-yang locations. She'd seen the mountain without the framework of language. Without the cage of associations. She'd seen it without looking through the lens of everythi..
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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.
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Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
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Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
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The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. So Brandy never asked me anything."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Human beings don't cultivate ideas. On the contrary...Ideas cultivate us.
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The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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reincarnation
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
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Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...
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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying, organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
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You are permanent, but this life is not.
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart." -- Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction"
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This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it
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The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.
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I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.
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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble. So you just walk home.
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I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.
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What stops you here is what stops your entire life." The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life."
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My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life.
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You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.
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I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
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We see what we want. We see how we want. We only see ourselves.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's eerie, but what's happening is the folks are staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor, on and on, completely trapped in a reality loop that never ends.
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Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Don't ask me when because I don't remember, but somewhere along the way I keep forgetting to commit suicide.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No matter how much I try and hide this, bit by bit, I start to fall apart.
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Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Everything you remember is wrong.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak
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My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need.
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted.
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I am helpless. I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things. My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage." This is how bad your life can get."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.
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