I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?" Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, "No, that's not right." Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.


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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
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The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustr...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim...
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
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She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...
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Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...
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Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow peop...
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My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
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My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...
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One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they'r...
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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
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Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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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...
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We just had a near-life experience!
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This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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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?
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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
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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.
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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 don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
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There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
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Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
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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...
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