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You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
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Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?
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jesus
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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The damaged loves the damaged.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
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self-discovery
drugs
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My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.
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sex
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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 up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.
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past
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For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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tyler-durden
nihilism
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Everyone's in their own personal coma.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!
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humor
inspirational
tyler-durden
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
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heaven
life
expectation
hell
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
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want
more
palahniuk
dissatisfaction
lullaby
consumerism
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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
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judging
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
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free-will
god
p20
greek
goddess
consumerism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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You gain power by pretending to be weak.
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weak
power
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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life
medical-training
palahniuk
physicians
doctors
medicine
disease
waiting
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Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
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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.
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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. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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perfection
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Remember this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. We are the middle children ..
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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world
pieces
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. 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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Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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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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To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history's in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.
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