Help me give up my addiction to Hope. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. Chuck Palahniuk fight-club-book snowflake special I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart. Chuck Palahniuk surprise broken heart When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks. Chuck Palahniuk spheres space names Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. Chuck Palahniuk drones queens bees The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. Chuck Palahniuk powerful real believe Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Chuck Palahniuk wall gun brain Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet. Chuck Palahniuk wallets hello littles Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? Chuck Palahniuk hollies issues identity If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution. Chuck Palahniuk resolution ifs People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. Chuck Palahniuk scary drama people 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 stories past It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease. Chuck Palahniuk medicine drug school People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. Chuck Palahniuk success love people I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that. Chuck Palahniuk skills law reality Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand. Chuck Palahniuk whole-life imagine jobs The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill. Chuck Palahniuk dollar-bills dollars way Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand. Chuck Palahniuk wrinkles eye hair The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. Chuck Palahniuk weekend friday sunday I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. Chuck Palahniuk fighting two thinking Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain. Chuck Palahniuk mother liars believe
