All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
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Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
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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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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
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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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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.
- Chuck Palahniuk Quote

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Chuck Palahniuk Quote

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
- Chuck Palahniuk Quote

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
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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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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
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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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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
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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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Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
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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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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
- Chuck Palahniuk Quote

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
- Chuck Palahniuk Quote

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
- Chuck Palahniuk Quote