Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 23

Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. View quote
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. View quote
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I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. View quote
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Having nothing to lose is the new wealth. View quote
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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. View quote
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If you can change the way people think, the way they see themselves, the way they see the world. If you can do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create. View quote
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Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. View quote
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Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. View quote
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. View quote
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Without just one nestA bird can call the world homeLife is your career. View quote
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There will always be an underground. View quote
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars. View quote
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The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. View quote
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You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. View quote
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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? View quote
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Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. View quote
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New carpet will exude poisonous formaldehyde for up to two years after it'd been laid. I know the feeling. View quote
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me. View quote
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If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. View quote
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I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, Why Why did I cause so much pain Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, No, that's not right. Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. View quote
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We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic. View quote
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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. View quote
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