Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 11

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you. View quote
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. View quote
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be. View quote
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You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. View quote
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By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. View quote
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Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin. View quote
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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless! View quote
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I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation. (Chuck Palahniuk)
I am Jack's smirking revenge. View quote
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Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. View quote
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How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? View quote
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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. View quote
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Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. View quote
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Anymore, no one's mind is their own. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're all of us haunted and haunting. View quote
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We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra... (Chuck Palahniuk)
There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love. View quote
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Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? View quote
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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal. View quote
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You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. View quote
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Chuck Palahniuk

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Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: American Novelist
Born: February 21, 1962
Quotes count: 729
Wikipedia: Chuck Palahniuk

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