Top 500 Chuck Palahniuk Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Angel says that rich people don’t like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t pretty and perfect. You can’t put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

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152. “Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”

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153. “In the end, it’s never what you worry about that gets you.”

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154. “The first step to eternal life, is you have to die.”

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155. “You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!”

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156. “Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can’t just be a spectator.”

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157. “I really believe it’s the moments we can’t talk about that become the rest of our lives. It’s the moments we can’t process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.”

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158. “I’ve been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.”

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159. “There’s worse that people can steal from you than money.”

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160. “What kind of dining set defines me as a person?”

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161. “Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

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162. “I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.”

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163. “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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164. “The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don’t be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

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165. “The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.”

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166. “You have to jump into disaster with both feet.”

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167. “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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168. “Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.”

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169. “We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.”

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170. “The voice says, maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.”

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171. “A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you’re planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.”

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172. “Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”

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173. “I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”

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174. “You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.”

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175. “If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.”

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176. “For six months I couldn’t sleep. With insomnia, nothing’s real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

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177. “We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”

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178. “How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.”

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179. “You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

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180. “You could stab a knife right through my heart and you’d be too late.”

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181. “We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”

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182. “Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.”

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183. “Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”

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184. “I feel my heart ache, but I’ve forgotten what that feeling means.”

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185. “Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.”

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186. “People will listen to you only when they know you’re dying, otherwise they’re just waiting for their turn to talk.”

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187. “Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”

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188. “The bad news is we don’t have any control. The good news is we can’t make any mistakes.”

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189. “Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

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190. “Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.”

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191. “When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.”

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192. “Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.”

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193. “I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can’t live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

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194. “I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

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195. “Don’t do this. I love you. Don’t shut me out.”

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196. “Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”

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197. “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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198. “What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.”

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199. “If you flee from the things you fear, there’s no resolution.”

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

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