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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If we can forgive what's been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.
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words
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.
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jung
shadow
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You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
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pain
pointless
sacrifice
space
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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What if reality is nothing but some disease?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
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subject
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
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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 addressed and recorded. nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. on a roller coaster. at a movie. still, it would always be that kind of faux excitem..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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innovation
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast fl..
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humor
music
truth
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The future is just wasted on some people.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
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choke
time
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There's an opposite to deja vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.
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familiar
strangers
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.
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beauty
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
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life
loss
resurrection
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, s..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
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the-past
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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
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choke
dreams
education
intelligence
lethargy
palahniuk
sloth
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
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inspirational
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
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domination
life
love
relationships
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sex pretty much cures everything.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.
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impressed
pigeons
self-absorption
student
synapses
toxicology
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.
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Chuck Palahniuk |