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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 all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.Chuck Palahniuk
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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.Chuck Palahniuk
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You can’t fool people into loving you.Chuck Palahniuk
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.Chuck Palahniuk
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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.Chuck Palahniuk
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.Chuck Palahniuk
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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.Chuck Palahniuk
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Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.Chuck Palahniuk
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Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.Chuck Palahniuk
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Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.Chuck Palahniuk
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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.Chuck Palahniuk
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It sounds as if you'd like to be God.Chuck Palahniuk
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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.Chuck Palahniuk
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The lucky ones are just born dead.Chuck Palahniuk
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What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.Chuck Palahniuk
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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.Chuck Palahniuk
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By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.Chuck Palahniuk
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Art never comes from happiness.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.Chuck Palahniuk
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Art never comes from happinessChuck Palahniuk
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They should let some people into the library by prescription onlyChuck Palahniuk
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To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it.Chuck Palahniuk
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You gain power by pretending to be weak.Chuck Palahniuk
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For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.Chuck Palahniuk
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My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.Chuck Palahniuk
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Sex pretty much cures everything.Chuck Palahniuk
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I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.Chuck Palahniuk
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The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door. You'll be amazed how time flies.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.Chuck Palahniuk
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Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.Chuck Palahniuk
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If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.Chuck Palahniuk
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros 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.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.Chuck Palahniuk
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Anything you can acquire is only another thing you'll loseChuck Palahniuk
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They all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.Chuck Palahniuk
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I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.Chuck Palahniuk
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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.Chuck Palahniuk
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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.Chuck Palahniuk
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You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.Chuck Palahniuk
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There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.Chuck Palahniuk
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That's it, Uncle Huey! " Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit! " If only her voice didn’t sound so young.Kaye George
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Ignorance was bliss.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,Chuck Palahniuk
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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.Chuck Palahniuk
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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.Chuck Palahniuk
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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.Chuck Palahniuk
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Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves.Chuck Palahniuk
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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.Chuck Palahniuk
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She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time. The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages.Chuck Palahniuk