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"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: life
753 people liked it

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: loss
617 people liked it

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: reality
539 people liked it

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

457 people liked it

"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: future, life, past
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"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: identity, originality
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"The things you own end up owning you."
— Chuck Palahniuk

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"I don't want to die without any scars."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: death, durden, scars, tyler
261 people liked it

"...the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: chance, happiness, risk
208 people liked it

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life
233 people liked it

"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."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: love
268 people liked it

"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: love
186 people liked it

"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: hate, self-loathing
132 people liked it

"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

tags: death
104 people liked it

"We'll never be as young as we are tonight."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)

tags: age, youth
116 people liked it

"What we don't understand we can make mean anything."
— Chuck Palahniuk

102 people liked it

"Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against."
— Chuck Palahniuk

114 people liked it

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: history
79 people liked it

"Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)

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"Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

tags: human-nature
63 people liked it

"If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: different
46 people liked it

"Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.
Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am.
What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

49 people liked it

"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

45 people liked it

"Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it."
— Chuck Palahniuk

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"Just for the record, the weather today is bitter with occasional fits of jealous rage."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

57 people liked it

"One a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

28 people liked it

"This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club: A Novel)

tags: chuck, club, fight, palahniuk
10 people liked it

"almost all the time you tell yourself you're loving somebody when your just using them. this only looks like love."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

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"Your heart is my piñata."
— Chuck Palahniuk

9 people liked it

"As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary
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— William S. Burroughs

tags: judgement, law
4 people liked it

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: truth
75 people liked it

"Sanity is not statistical."
— George Orwell

34 people liked it

"Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they can never become conscious. "
— George Orwell

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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
— George Orwell

5 people liked it

"'I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.'
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— George Orwell

3 people liked it

"Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
— George Orwell

tags: progress
4 people liked it

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: neurosis
169 people liked it

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: goals
161 people liked it

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
— Sylvia Plath

128 people liked it

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: baths
80 people liked it

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: depression, silence
97 people liked it

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: expectations
90 people liked it

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone"
— Tennessee Williams

19 people liked it

"How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
— Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie)

17 people liked it

"And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. "
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

tags: confusion, grief, happiness
9 people liked it

"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
— Tennessee Williams

7 people liked it

"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

102 people liked it

"In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.
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— Chuck Klosterman

tags: sex-drugs-and-cocoa-puffs
30 people liked it

"Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

14 people liked it

"Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

tags: humor, music
10 people liked it

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