I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you dont know what you want, you end up with a lot you dont
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Theres always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK