Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 25

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• you're doomed at being you.

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  Doomed

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• the world is the cradle and your trap.

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  World, Cradle, Traps

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• Self improvement is masturbation.

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  Self, Cynical, Development

  Chuck Palahniuk (2014). “Beautiful You: A Novel”, p.199, Anchor

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• Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

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  Sunday, People, Kind

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• No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

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  Soon Enough, Expectations, Heaven

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• It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

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  Two, Brain, Would Be

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

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  Hero, Epic, Climbing

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• What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

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  Fighting, Men, Generations

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

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  Atheist, Real, Fighting

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Angel, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

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  Art, Clever, Phones

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

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  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

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  Fun, Bigs, Please

  "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

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  Gun, Mouths, Wonder

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

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  Office, Boss, Cards

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

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  Art, Artwork

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• You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

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  Strong, People, Gains

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

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• We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

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  Long, Firsts, Language

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

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  Stories

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• Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

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  Love Is, Bullshit, Emotion

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

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• These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

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  Focus, Distraction

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

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  Lonely, Truck, Saliva

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.16, Random House

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• Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

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  Forever, Trying, Lasts

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

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• I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

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  Hero, Needs, Want

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

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• If it is the case that love does survive death, then you may consider this to be a happy ending. Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Happily ever after or not.

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  Girl, Boys, Doe

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