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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c3faecb | But someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2cbd805 | If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 9c6da30 | Just another stupid moment people have to make last forever. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0249e7d | You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| aed8c38 | A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 864d025 | Do you respect someone's right to challenge and discover their true potential?How is a gang-bang any different than risking your life to climb mount Everest? | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0c4e9d5 | Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 96a75a0 | In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 092fdcd | To cope, he and his siblings - older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called Henry Kissinger. Palahniuk remembers that as their parents fought, lots would be drawn to see who would play Kissinger. 'This was the early to mid-70s, when Kissinger was a hero, forging peace in the Middle East,' he explains. 'Whoever became Henry Kissinger would have to go and redirect our parents' attention or anger to a different crisis.'.. | chuck-palahniuk damned-lies dysfunctional-families fight-club violence | Antonella Gambotto-Burke | |
| 3eb419f | Nuestra generacion no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros si que estamos librando una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolucion contra la cultura. La gran crisis esta en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espiritual. | cultura el-club-de-la-lucha espiritual fight-club | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 0bb2159 | Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0677a76 | If you won't share my life with me, maybe you'll share my death. | death life pygmy | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 7e394b3 | I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off. | illusion investment love moment relationship sex | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 4734b29 | I'm trapped here, in a nosedive, in my life, in the cockpit of a jet-liner with the flat yellow of the Australian outback coming up fast. And there's so many things I want to change but can't. It's all done. It's all just a story now. Here's the life and death of Tender Branson, and I can just walk away from it. And the sky is blue and righteous in every direction. The sun is total and burning and just right there, and today is a beautifu.. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 2955f5a | She tries to not ask, to stop asking, but the effort is like trying to un-pop a balloon. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e4f5d6b | sr lbq `l~ lqm@ hw 'l tmthl mSdr thdyd,'n tkwn l shy',msH@ frG@ yml'h lns Hsb hwhm,'n tkwn mra@. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e0a7e8b | individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich culture diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special--in actual, remaining no power. Only when wedded to state purpose grants the citizen actual power. State mission and plan creates .. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 0c7b6ef | Death is the One Big Mistake that none of us EVER plans to make. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4c3ac56 | You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f2a100b | You don't understand any of it, and then you just die. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 954903b | Edition to edition, the symptoms change. Sane people are insane by a new standard. People who used to be called insane are the picture of perfect mental health. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 56d42d6 | Then since the autopilot will have it trimmed out to fly in a straight line, the glider will begin what the pilot calls a controlled descent. That kind of a descent, I tell him, would be nice for a change. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 6424846 | That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 22b7ec3 | Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. | love | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 02e7858 | Who you are moment to moment is just a story. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 93baebd | When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5237405 | W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. | heaven-and-hell hell life life-and-death | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| 428d1ca | Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J" | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 075c794 | You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 223c462 | Life in These United States. Laughter Is the Best Medicine. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 4448d18 | 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. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 96cda4f | Because the only frontier left is the world of intangibles, ideas, stories, music, art. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| d2797e4 | The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| ebc79da | One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 66ba21f | What you have to know is that Marla is still alive. Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 5969829 | You never know the complicated deals two people negotiate in order to stay married beyond the first ten minutes. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| f890178 | I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world," the space monkey tells the mirror. "I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 511543e | I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage." This is how bad your life can get." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 59e2575 | it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| c8a3790 | You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you. All you have to do is be fragile and grateful. So stay the underdog. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| 098e722 | Purgatory is where you unwrite the book of your life story | escribir-hasta-la-muerte | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| eeacae1 | Katherine's theory is that everyone looking to make a new life migrates west, across America to the Pacific Ocean. Once there, the cheapest city where they can live is Portland. This gives us the most cracked of the crackpots. The misfits among misfits. "We just accumulate more and more strange people," she says. "All we are are the fugitives and refugees." | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| fc3c31b | what you can't understand you can make mean anything. | Chuck Palahniuk | ||
| e94a4e5 | statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies. | statue | Chuck Palahniuk |