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Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.
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Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hiding the truth.
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So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars-- or--a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe." Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. "It's just that people want something to show for their effort," Seth says. "Like the pharaohs and their pyramids."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.
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Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and ene..
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religion
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Then you're trapped on your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can fuck for hours.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You had a near life experience.
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life
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Right now, me getting killed would be redundant. ... You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late. ... Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sex reincarnated that good, pure girl, but as something else.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I irritate; therefore I am.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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they should let some people into the library by prescription only
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library
reading
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password
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password
palahniuk
cleverness
programming
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The left half of your brain deals with logic, language, calculation, and reason. This is the half people perceive as their personal identity. This is the conscious, rational, everyday basis of reality. The right side of your brain, is the center of your intuition, emotion, insight, and pattern recognition skills. Your subconscious. Your left brain is a scientist,. Your right brain is an artist. People live their lives out of the left half ..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I'll get on with my life.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs -- isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different ab..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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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Chuck Palahniuk |
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She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that."
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sex
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sterility
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Now is the autumn of our ennui.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Because I can't save anybody; not as a doctor, not as a son. And because I can't save anybody, I can't save myself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Because the only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.
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Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The whole island was exactly what a kid growing up in some trailer park--say some dump like Tecumseh Lake, Georgia--would dream about. This kid would turn out all the lights in the trailer while her mom was at work. She'd lie down flat on her back, on the matted-down orange shag carpet in the living room. The carpet smelling like somebody stepped in a dog pile. The orange melted black in spots from cigarette burns. The ceiling was water-sta..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There's nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
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Peter used to say, "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves su free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walking. Which China pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a Diary."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.
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Chuck Palahniuk |