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121 " they should let some people into the library by prescription only "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
122 " We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
123 " There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't 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. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Survivor
124 " Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Fight Club
125 " No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Lullaby
126 " 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. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Diary
127 " Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother. "
128 " To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it. "
129 " You gain power by pretending to be weak. "
130 " If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel.And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule. "
131 " We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces. "
132 " Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Pygmy
133 " We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. "
134 " I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. "
135 " What if reality is nothing but some disease? "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Rant
136 " We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted
137 " Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Beautiful You
138 " It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God. "
― Chuck Palahniuk
139 " For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh. "
140 " My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich. "