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b693ad8
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It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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2b047b1
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Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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b9dfaca
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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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f510f19
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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stories
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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16ec850
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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inspirational
tyler
fight-club
tyler-durden
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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98a9fd3
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I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, 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 the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spi..
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space-monkeys
tyler-durden
nihilism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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c63e047
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I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We j..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no var..
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history
history-repeating-itself
patterns
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a405a64
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Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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fbc26b3
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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cdce9ec
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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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fec1cff
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Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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2c42c91
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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monsters
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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cd1b0d2
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May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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37f65b1
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The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.
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posessions
materialism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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4abb4ed
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That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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1ab109d
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I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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e5b3954
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
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resolutions
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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7d8b7f5
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
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temptation
sin
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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60f19e0
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Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a942d20
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More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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3c53f8d
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Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me. Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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389290f
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The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a0eabee
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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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4dc785a
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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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palahniuk
narrator
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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21cef78
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Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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0a687df
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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guns
power
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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ddb2add
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The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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e83454d
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I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's just about getting off. 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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065ffc2
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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game-shows
trivia
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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2eafa05
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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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ea82a9a
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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heart-ache
forgotten
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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b685cea
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Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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e26bebe
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Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
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relationships
life
love
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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d112a72
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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
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past
human-nature
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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8604075
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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0b3fd24
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We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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dd5fb7a
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The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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9f96db0
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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
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reality
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a63c274
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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04ed330
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The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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a050436
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Make me into anything, but just love me.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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b45077b
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Find good in what the world says is evil.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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5037ffd
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Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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Chuck Palahniuk |