Invisible Monsters Quotes - Page 2

• When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Future, Promise, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

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• When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Friendship, People, Hearing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Like Love, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.189, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mistake, Trying, Birth Life

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.264, Random House

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• And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Culture, Way, Traps

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Find good in what the world says is evil.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Evil, World

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Adventure, Maps

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Silly, Empty Rooms, Hysteria

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Single, Real, Adventure

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Becoming, Becoming God, Dies

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Way

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.218, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Mistake, Discovery

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

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• Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Running, Fighting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feet, Disaster

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The future is just wasted on some people.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.100, Random House

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• You can say anything if enough people will listen.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Say Anything, Enough

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

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• If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Want, Action, Ifs

  "Memory". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1996.

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