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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.Chuck Palahniuk
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Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.Chuck Palahniuk
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.Chuck Palahniuk
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At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.Chuck Palahniuk
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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.Chuck Palahniuk
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.Chuck Palahniuk
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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.Chuck Palahniuk
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!Chuck Palahniuk
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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.Chuck Palahniuk
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.Chuck Palahniuk
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This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.Chuck Palahniuk
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I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.Chuck Palahniuk
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If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?Chuck Palahniuk
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If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.Chuck Palahniuk
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I don't want to die without any scars.Chuck Palahniuk
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.Chuck Palahniuk
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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.Chuck Palahniuk
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.Chuck Palahniuk
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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.Chuck Palahniuk
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Believe in me and you shall die, forever.Chuck Palahniuk
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If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.Chuck Palahniuk
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Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.Chuck Palahniuk
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Le stelle in cielo Non conoscono l'ira Bla, bla, bla, fineChuck Palahniuk
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Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.Chuck Palahniuk
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Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.Chuck Palahniuk
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The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.Chuck Palahniuk
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This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.Chuck Palahniuk
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We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.Chuck Palahniuk
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The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.Chuck Palahniuk
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There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.Chuck Palahniuk
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Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one.Chuck Palahniuk
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Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.Chuck Palahniuk
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Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.Chuck Palahniuk
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These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.Chuck Palahniuk
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We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.Chuck Palahniuk
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.Chuck Palahniuk
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Only after disaster can we be resurrected.Chuck Palahniuk
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Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.Chuck Palahniuk
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Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.Chuck Palahniuk
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Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?Chuck Palahniuk
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You had a near life experience.Chuck Palahniuk
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You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.Chuck Palahniuk
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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.Chuck Palahniuk
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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!Chuck Palahniuk
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Pounding that kid, I really wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.Chuck Palahniuk
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For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.Chuck Palahniuk
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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.Chuck Palahniuk
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And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.Chuck Palahniuk
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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.Chuck Palahniuk