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To my mind, those who can, do. Those who can't, gripe.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
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words
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work
life
novel
soul
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Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.
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A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.
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bt` ly 'bwy lsmk@ l'wl~ l't`lm 'n 'Hb mkhlwqt llh l'khr~ w'`tny bh , wkl m t`lmth b`d 640 smk@ : hw 'n klW shyin tHbhu ymwt !
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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A moment is all you can expect from perfection.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The worst job in the whole world must be recycling toilet paper.
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What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In the way our world is, everybody shoulder to shoulder, people knowing everything about you at first glance, a good veil is your tinted limousine window. The unlisted number for your face. Behind a good veil, you could be anyone.
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Not that I'm crazy or anything, I just want some proof that death isn't the end. Even if crazed zombies grabbed me in some dark hall one night, even if they tore me apart, at least that wouldn't be the absolute end. There would be some comfort in that.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Or, I could just sit in the bushes and pump the hand pump until the plumbing was superpressurized to 110 psi. This way, when someone goes to flush a toilet, the toilet tank will explode. At 150 psi, if someone turns on the shower, the water pressure will blow off the shower head, strip the threads, blam, the shower head turns into a mortar shell. Tyler only says this to make me feel better. The truth is I like my boss. Besides, I'm enlighte..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Valley of the Dogs. Where even if they don't kill you, if someone loves you enough to take you home, they still castrate you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Why do I do anything? 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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Chuck Palahniuk |
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In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's not that I'm some detached lab animal just conditioned to ignore violence, but my first instinct is maybe it's not too late to dab club soda on the bloodstain.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It happens fast for some people and slow for other, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Give me attention. Flash. Give me adoration. Flash. Give me a break. Flash
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Rant goes, "Really, truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?" I go, doesn't Rant mean "love"? And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?"
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.
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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 is when I'd cry because right now, your life comes down to nothing, and not even nothing, oblivion.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be?
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sure, I want to look like I'm worth the effort. Washed but not ironed. Clean but not polished. Confident but humble.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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After Tyler and Marla had sex about ten times, Tyler says, Marla said she wanted to get pregnant. Marla said she wanted to have Tyler's abortion.
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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble
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faith
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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, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in ..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer. Madonna versus whore. An option not mired in the lingering detritus of some Victorian-era dream.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Ignore how it feels when the only real talent you have is for hidding the truth. You have a God-given knack for commiting a terrible sin. It's your calling. You have a natural gift for denial. A blessing.
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They want me to account for my next ten years. Their way, everything in your life turns into an item on a list. Something to accomplish. You get to see how your life looks flattened out. The shortest distance between two points is a timeline, 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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Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A theory. A marketing campaign. A political strategy. A religious doctrine.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and dazzling computer special effects, they had such a complete lack of imagination when it came to spending their money: granite countertops and luxury cars. Talking about that stuff, Wax driving, the madder he got, you could watch the speedo creep up past eighty, ninety, a hundred.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I want to fuck you so bad I can taste it
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I am Jack's broken heart.
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humor
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.
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humour
observation
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We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's 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. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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No, we love war. War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment. "It's the mark of a very, very young soul," Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery." We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore fores..
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It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up whatever you're trying to say.
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