Quotes By Person: Chuck Palahniuk

“Here, I'm supposed to tell her the truth. I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control of his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

In a way, being an addict is very proactive.”

-Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”

-Choke, Chuck Palahniuk

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“... the things you used to own, now they own you.”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teeth in my jaw. Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Maybe self-destruction is the answer.”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

'It's only after you've lost everything,' Tyler says, 'that you're free to do anything.'”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Tyler says I'm nowhere near hitting the bottom, yet. And if I don't fall all the way, I can't be saved. Jesus did it with his crucifixion thing. I shouldn't just abandon money and property and knowledge. This isn't just a weekend retreat. I should run from self-improvement, and I should be running toward disaster. I can't just play it safe anymore.”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.”

-Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

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“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.

Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.”

-Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

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“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges too close.”

-Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

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“The one you love and the one who loves you will never be the same person.”

-Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

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“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

-Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

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“You're a product of our language and our laws and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive is fine because you can conceive it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out. The world is your cradle and your grave.”

-Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk

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“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.”

-Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”

-Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk

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“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.”

-Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk

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“Every addiction is just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it is all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple. Language is just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. People can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”

-Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

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“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 re-enlist.”

-Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

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“There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.”

-Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

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