CHUCK PALAHNIUK QUOTES

HERE’S TO GOOD OLD CHUCK

THE FOLLOWING ARE ALL CHUCK PALAHNIUK QUOTES FROM VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS

JUST BECAUSE HE’S CHUCK

“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.”

“Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

“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?”

“More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you’d never stare long enough to get if she’d ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”

“‘I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure.’
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”

“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it’s the wrong place.”

“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

“The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

“I just don’t want to die without a few scars.”

“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.”

“You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”

“If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”

“I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this long long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it’s just about getting off. Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love.”

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

 

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