Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Literature
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
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Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
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It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
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Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
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If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
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More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
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The answer is there is no answer.
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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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