Chuck Palahniuk: Trending quotes (page 9)

“Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.”

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”

“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.”

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”

“I tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil”

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

“I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.”

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”

“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.”