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They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass."
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lw stT`t 'n SHw fy mkn nkhtlf wfy wqt mkhtlf , fhl bws`y 'n 'SHw kshkhS mkhtlf ?
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When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You're a product of our language", Brandy says, "and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you" she says. "Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's ..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No one sleeps in Hell except as a possible defensive posture in retaliation during yet another punitive presentation of The English Patient.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the outcasts will crouch for days to observe the mating habits of a salamander.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Good and evil have always existed. They always will. It's only our stories about them that ever change.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard--something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it's been relocated miles away.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. 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 holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, ..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The first group I went to, there were introductions: this is Alice, this is Brenda, this is Dover. Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This is better than real life.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Give me attention. Flash. Give me beauty. Flash. Give me peace and happiness, a loving relationship, and a perfect home. Flash.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I'm not so much a good friend as I am the saviour who wants you to worship him forever.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Give me violent revenge fantasies as a copying mechanism. Flash. Just give me my first oportunity. Flash.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The hardest blessing you give up is silence.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Wherever we end up, I just won't go back to normal.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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And sometimes being mutilated can work to your advantage. All those people now with piercings and tattoos and brandings and scarification... What I mean is, attention is attention.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.
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Don't quote me on any of this. It's been a long time since I've been tested
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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An ancient truism had once decreed, "Self improvement is masturbation.."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny details of every day doing the same tasks over and over.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I cross my fingers that if a demon dunks me in a vat of boiling lava I'll get thrown together naked with River Phoenix, and that he'll say I'm cute and try to kiss me.
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humor
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Without just one nest, A bird can call the world home, Life is your career.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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As if any one of those people isn't already looking around for a new guru to make sense out of their risk- free boredom of a lifestyle while they watch the news on television and pass judgment on me.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is you can't make any mistakes.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash. I am Ozymandias, king of kings.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Just something to need you home at night. Something to keep you from living alone.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED used to mean a client was set free. Now it means a client is dead. Nobody wanted to special-order a stamp that said DEAD. The caseworker told me this a few years ago when the suicides started back up again. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. This is how things get recycled.
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