Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 26

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• So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. 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.

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  Writing, Looks, Retrospect

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• If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

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  Procrastination, Way, Reincarnation

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

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  Beautiful, Ozone, Ozone Layer

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

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  Girl, Shadow, Records

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

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

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  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

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  Thinking, Sky, Standing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

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  Artist, Ideas, Effort

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• Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

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  Roots, Blue, Paper

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• Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

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  Baby, Kidnapped

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• You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

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  Love You, Risk, Live By

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

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• For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

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  Real, Sleep, Insomnia

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• If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

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  Lying, Fall, Tree

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

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• Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

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  Alive, Reputation, Praise

  Chuck Palahniuk (2009). “Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey”, Anchor Canada

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• Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

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  Blind, Stealing, Photograph

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

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• Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

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  Years, Feelings, Might

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.213, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.

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  Hair, Use, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

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  Father, Models

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• Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

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  Fighting, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.53, Random House

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• Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

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  Mom, Dream, Dad

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.28, Random House

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• How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

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  Names, Giving, Labels

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

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• In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

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  Jobs, Skills, Valuable

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

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• I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

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  Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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

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• Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

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  School, Fighting, Oregon

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• Love and life belongs to great risk.

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  Life And Love, Risk, Great Risk

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• If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

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  Action, Emotion, Ifs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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