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Suicide is very contagious.
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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
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relationship
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
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freedom
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you'd be ruined. Overdosed on information.
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This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their child. They just want the child to sleep. They just want to dominate. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way. The masochist bullies the sadist into action. The most passive person is actually an aggressor."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When you go out with a drunk, you'll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you're drinking, drinking is okay. Two's company. Drinking is fun. If there's a bottle, even if your glass isn't empty, a drunk, he'll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.
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In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's 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.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The martyrdom of me.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your attention. How your past goes with you into every day of your future.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I embrace my own festering diseased corruption,
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The things you own end up owning you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A house full of condiments and no real food. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In Hell, you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This is something I'll go to Hell for.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Me, while I'm heading west, asleep at Mach 0.83, or 455 miles an hour, or true airspeed, the FBI is bomb-squading my suitcase on a vacated runway back in Dulles. Nine out of ten times, the security task force guy says, the vibration is an electric razor. The other time, it's a vibrating dildo. Imagine, the task force guy says, telling a passenger on arrival that a dildo kept her baggage on the East Coast. Sometimes it's even a man. It's air..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sizler ozel degilsiniz, sizler guzel yada esi benzeri olmayan kar tanesi de degilsiniz, sizler isiniz degilsiniz, sizler paraniz kadar degilsiniz, bindiginiz araba degilsiniz, kredi kartlarinizin limiti degilsiniz, sizler ic camasiri degilsiniz, sizler her sey gibi curuyen birer organik maddesiniz... bizler bu dunyanin sarki soyleyip dans eden yeri geldiginde dalga gecen yeri geldiginde gulup gecen pislikleriyiz. " Tyler Durden"
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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According to Babette, 98.3 percent of lawyers end up in Hell. That's in contrast to the 23 percent of farmers who are eternally damned. Some 45 percent of retail business owners are Hellbound, and 85 percent of computer software writers. Perhaps a trace number of politicians ascend to Heaven, but statistically speaking, 100 percent of them are cast into the fiery pit. As are essentially 100 percent of journalists and redheads.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Our humanity isn't measured by how we treat other people, our humanity is measured by how we treat animals.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Birds ate my face.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
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Chuck Palahniuk |