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181 " they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
182 " I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women. "
183 " She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Beautiful You
184 " We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties and howl over its ripeness. Degraded as it was, we will degrade it further. Make it more swollen. We shall render it impossibly awful, making of it the mythology of ourselves. A comfort. Proof of the trials we've survived. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
185 " Aim low and you won't be disappointed. "
186 " He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself. "
187 " I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy. "
― Chuck Palahniuk
188 " When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
189 " Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us. "
190 " You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. "
191 " There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. "
192 " You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Lullaby
193 " The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Doomed (Damned, #2)
194 " Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you. "
195 " Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. "
196 " The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Survivor
197 " 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. "
198 " 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. "
199 " Suicide is very contagious. "
200 " Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Fight Club