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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. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world alway..
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It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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You met me at a very strange time in my life.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach me about loving and caring for another living breathing creature of God. Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
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I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
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savior
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Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.
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truth
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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
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flowers
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
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love
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
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heroes
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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
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life
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I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, G..
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Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
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You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
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love
soap
save
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You have to jump into disaster with both feet.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.
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sex
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
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invisible-monsters
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Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's y..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
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