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Chuck Palahniuk
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We lear...
“I don't want to die without any scars.”
“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to...
“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”
“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one...
“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”
“It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
“The future is just wasted on some people.”
“The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The...
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
“Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.”
“Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someon...
“It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”
“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”
“At this rate, we'll never get to the future.”
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your ski...
“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
“The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to contro...
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our educati...
“The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.”
“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Expla...
“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up al...
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intang...
“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow d...
“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.”
“Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”
“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”
“Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most wom...
“No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a ma...
