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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e2511b4 | How physical beauty turns out to be chemistry and geometry and anatomy. Art is really science. Discovering why people like something is so you can replicate it. Copy it. It's a paradox, "creating" a real smile. Rehearsing again and again a spontaneous moment of horror. All the sweat and boring effort that goes into creating what looks easy and instant." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 30957ea | You probably don't want to date a rapist, not right off. Nobody's that desperate. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8b303b0 | This whole time, I was calm. I was the picture of calm. I never, never panicked. I saw my blood and snot and teeth splashed all over the dashboard the moment after the accident, but hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e558db8 | Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club. | rules | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| a285259 | The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 89bca73 | My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ad429a6 | A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect of perfection | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 105c24b | I melt and swell at the moment of landing when one wheel thuds on the runway but the plane leans to one side and hangs in the decision to right itself or roll. For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone. Not your luggage. Nothing matters. Not your bad breath. The windows are dark outside and the turbine engines roar backward. The cabin hangs at the wrong angle under the roar of the turbines, and you will never .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9686567 | Too much school." "Would you rather be dead?! Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?!" | motivational | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 08a9480 | It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4b94b54 | My biggest gripe is still hope. In hell, hope is a really really bad habit. Like smoking cigarettes or fingernail biting. Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break. Yes, I know the word tenacious. I'm 13 and disillusioned. And a little lonely. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 1184b4e | Tyler, I'm grateful to you; for everything that you've done for me. But this is too much. I don't want this. What do you want? Wanna go back to the shit job, fuckin' condo world, watching sitcoms? Fuck you, I won't do it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9fe94df | Stealing drugs, selling drugs, buying clothes, renting luxury cars, taking clothes back, ordering blender drinks, this isn't what I'd call Real Life, not by a long shot. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6fd5038 | Shining anal queen of perfection, she says, "Fuck." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| caa976d | There is no human soul, and I am absolutely for sure seriously not going to fucking cry. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 58db0be | The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an oportunity for something better than I ever imagined. The truth is I'm sorry. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 512706e | Rip yourself open. Tell me my life story before I die. Sew yourself shut. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0b6d64c | Everything, including your set of hand-blown green glass dishes with the tiny bubbles and imperfections, little bits of sand, proof they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous aboriginal people of wherever, well, these dishes all get blown out by the blast. Picture floor-to-ceiling drapes blown out and flaming to shreds in the hot wind. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0bcf206 | Pimple young. Giggling young. Silly young and stupid as me. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 897f239 | Adam said the other blessing you have to give up in the outside world is darkness. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 95fc1c4 | The demon say's "Do you view sexual acts between individuals of the same gender to be an abomination?"... "Do you approve," the demon says, "of marriage between individuals of differing racial backgrounds?" | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 47c3fd1 | 'n nw` mn mthlth lHb yHyT bn.. 'n 'ryd tylr w tylr yryd mrl w mrl trydny 'n. 'n l ryd mrl w tylr lm y`d bHj@ ly .. lys b`d lywm .. lmr l yt`lq blHb bl bGryz@ ltmlk .. wmn dwn mrl ln ymtlk tylr shyy'. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 89a3adc | To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it. | chuck-palahniuk mind subconscious zen | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 7eca5d0 | Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 8ba832b | This isn't such a beautiful world that he has to stay in it and suffer. This isn't much of a world at all. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3edd0a6 | I want you to do me a favor. I want you to hit me as hard as you can." I looked around and said, okay. Okay, I say, but outside in the parking lot. So we went outside, and I asked if Tyler wanted it in the face or in the stomach. Tyler said, "Surprise me." I said I had never hit anybody. Tyle said, "So go crazy, man." I said, close your eye. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 258506f | The damaged love the damaged. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 791ae5d | There were jobs so boring, you'd find ways to cripple yourself so you couldn't work. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 77258d9 | I knew this would happen," Marla says. "You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap." | humor love pages-159-160 soap | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| b854d85 | And if Christ had died from a barbiturate overdose, alone on the bathroom floor, would he be in heaven? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c333ea7 | Can you just relax and let things happen? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 3faff31 | You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e5d1242 | People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f700146 | A year could pass between her asking a question and my answer. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9591e8a | Your name told you just how your life would go. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f39d47c | The easy thing to do was give her the benefit of the doubt. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0e9c4f8 | Jump ahead ten years, and not much has changed. Ten years of therapy, and I'm still in about the same place. This probably isn't something we should celebrate. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ada1559 | I don't want her falling in love with me as a voice on the phone while at the same time she's trying to ditch me as a real person. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d197dc4 | Please don't feel hurt, Satan, but my parents raised me to believe you didn't exist. My mom and dad said you and God were invented in the superstitious, backward pea brains of hillbilly preachers and Republican hypocrites. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2678760 | With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would be like cleaning up after a stranger every day. Washing dishes all day. Feeding a stranger's children. Mowing a lawn. All day. Painting houses. Year after year. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 89c849c | The truth is nothing new ever happens. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 07786d9 | We were all so worried about our worst fears, squeezing frogs, eating worms, poisons, asbestos, we never considered how boring life would be even if we succeeded and got a good job. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f56b389 | The main thing I worry about in public is maybe people can tell I'm a survivor. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5608d42 | It was just one more predictable mass suicide in a world filled with splinter groups that limp along until they're confronted. | Chuck Palahniuk |