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“To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey

“I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Source: Fight Club

“The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact. Every play-by-play description on the radio, the home runs and strikeouts, even that's delayed a few minutes. Even live television is postponed a couple seconds. Even Sound and light can only go so fast.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 1

“You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.

“Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. These people with dead children, you want to tell them, go ahead. Blame yourself. There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“I know this because Tyler knows this.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“I want to have your abortion.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Phoenix