Chuck Palahniuk: Want

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“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: I don't want to die without any scars.
Source: Fight Club

“How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“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

“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 want to have your abortion.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

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

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Source: Fight Club

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 9, Exodus

“Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 20

“Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 26

“In journalism school, what they want you to be is a camera. A trained, objective, detached professional. Accurate, polished, and observant. They want you to believe that the new and you are always two separate things. Killers and reporters are mutually exclusive. Whatever the story, this isn't about you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)