Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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“This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.”

“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

“Why should I believe any of this?'
It happens that fast.
I say, because I think I like you.
Marla says, 'Not love?'
This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.”

“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.”

“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

“A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.”

“Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.”

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”

“you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?”

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”

“The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.”

“Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.”

“On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.”

“Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.”

“It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.”

“And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.”

“This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.”

“What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.”

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

“Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.”

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

“You have to jump into disaster with both feet.”

“This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.”

“On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.”

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

“There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.”

“And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.”

“If there's a trick to doing a job you hate… Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”

“It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.”

“In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.”

“In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring
shape-outlines we have to blink against.”

“It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.”

“It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.”

“Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.”

“I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.”

“Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted”

“Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.”