Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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“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.”

“I am Jack's smirking revenge.”

“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.”

“We just had a near-life experience!”

“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”

“What would Tyler Durden do?”

“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”

“Maybe we should always assume the worst.”

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

“You always kill the one you love.”

“I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.”

“More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“Sorry, mom.
Sorry, God.”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?”

“You have to keep recycling yourself.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”

“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”

“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”

“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”

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

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”

“Self improvement is masturbation…”

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”

“you're doomed at being you.”

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

“Skinny guys fight till they're burger.”

“Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead.
Probably that goes for anybody in the world.”

“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”

“At this rate, we'll never get to the future.”

“For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

“and i can't stand the idea of being alone.
i can't bear the thought of being free.”