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Famous Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.”
“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”
“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”
“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”
“I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.”
“The damaged loves the damaged.”
“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”
“and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.”
“The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”
“Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?”
“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”
“You always kill the one you love.”
“I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.”
“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”
“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
“I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.”
“I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.”
“You can’t fool people into loving you.”
“This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.”
“Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.”
“I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.”
“You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.”