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1. "Me encantaría creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiría todo el sufrimiento y la presión del mundo físico. Pero también negaría el valor del dinero que tengo en el banco, de mi casa que no está nada mal y de todo mi esfuerzo. Todos nuestros problemas y todo lo bueno que nos pasa podrían desdeñarse simplemente porque no son más reales que las escenas de un libro o una película. Un mundo eterno e invisible convertiría el nuestro en una ilusión." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
2. "Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
3. "Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
4. "We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
5. "Right now, me getting killed would be redundant....You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late....Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
6. "this is the upside of already being eternally damned" ~ Chuck Palahniuk
7. "So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from Broyhill, suggested retail price three thousand dollars— or—a ten-day trip to the old world charm of Europe." Most people, Seth says, would take the living room set. "It's just that people want something to show for their effort," Seth says. "Like the pharaohs and their pyramids." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
8. "You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
9. "The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
10. "The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God's most selfish children would steal God's greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death.This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick.Only God has the right to surprise His children with death." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
11. "The look is elegant and sacrilegious and makes me feel sacred and immoral.Haute couture and getting hauter." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
12. "A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
13. "At least Anne Frank," Comrade Snarky said, "never had to tour with her book . . ." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
14. "The stamp is something left over from an inpatient hospital program. In some other program RELEASED used to mean a client was set free. Now it means a client is dead. Nobody wanted to special-order a stamp that said DEAD. The caseworker told me this a few years ago when the suicides started back up again. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. This is how things get recycled." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
15. "Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?" ~ Chuck Palahniuk
16. "Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
17. "Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
18. "And if you believe that we really have free will, then you know that God can't really control us. And since God can't control us, all God does is watch and change channels when He gets bored." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
19. "When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
20. "Most ev­ery­thing else I know is from the mess­es these peo­ple leave be­hind." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
21. "How can I not laugh? I'm already dead." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
22. "Then all you can do is get lost in the tiny de­tails of ev­ery day do­ing the same tasks over and over." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
23. "We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
24. "Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
25. "To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
26. "The truth is noth­ing new ev­er hap­pens." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
27. "If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds withthe cyanide to produce less toxic compounds." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
28. "Jump ahead ten years, and not much has changed. Ten years of ther­apy, and I'm still in about the same place. This prob­ably isn't some­thing we should cel­ebrate." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
29. "Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
30. "The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
31. "Skinny guys fight till they're burger." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
32. "I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
33. "Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.At least the ancient Greeks were being honest." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
34. "How she looks is watered-down.How she looks is disappearing.How she looks is erased."Don't stress", she says. "This is just me not wearing any makeup." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
35. "My feet walked me down the aisle of the Greyhound bus, all the way to the back. My butt sat me in a seat.My butt's accomplished a lot since then.My butt's a movie star." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
36. "The pinup girl, Betty Grable, sprayed her bare butt and breasts with hairspray until they were wet. That way the top and bottom of her swimsuitstayed glued where she wanted. Hairspray inside your high heels works the same way." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
37. "Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
38. "Walter from Microsoft catches my eye. Here's a young guy with perfect teeth and clear skin and the kind of job you bother to write the alumni magazine about getting. You know he was too young to fight in any wars, and if his parents weren't divorced, his father was never home, and here he's looking at me with half my face clean shaved and half a leering bruise hidden in the dark. Blood shining on my lips. And maybe Walter's thinking about a meatless, pain-free potluck he went to last weekend or the ozone or the Earth's desperate need to stop cruel product testing on animals, but probably he's not." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
39. "Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
40. "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." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
41. "The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
42. "No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
43. "Give me anger.Flash.Give me vengeance.Flash.Give me total and complete justified retribution.Flash." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
44. "You've thrown down the gauntlet. You've brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living.But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
45. "Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
46. "I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
47. "Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
48. "Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
49. "In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
50. "The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art." ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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