Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Hard Times, Past

• You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

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  Life, Giving Up, Past

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• 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, People, Events

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.117, Random House

• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Travel, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

• 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, Stories, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company

• You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

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  Past, Your Future, Our Future

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

• Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

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  Truth, Past, Stories

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.208, Random House

• Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

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  Past, Chaos, Sometimes

• Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

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  Past, Forget The Past, Way

• An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

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  Drama, Moving, Past

• You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

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  Past, Thinking, Phrases

• There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

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  Past, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.273, Random House

• Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.

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  Past, Ice Cream, Ideas

• I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Past, Stories

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• Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Escaping, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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