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“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“If we can forgive what's been done to us… If we can forgive what we've done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 21

“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Asfixia

“In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction