Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead. Chuck Palahniuk our-world people world We all have some proper noun to blame. Chuck Palahniuk nouns blame Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names. Chuck Palahniuk wipe names way We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me. Chuck Palahniuk save-me heart believe It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make Chuck Palahniuk biggest-mistake mistake thinking The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine. Chuck Palahniuk details doors looks You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master. Chuck Palahniuk character father children Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes. Chuck Palahniuk able alcohol writing The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free. Chuck Palahniuk fighting path teacher Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register. Chuck Palahniuk ice-cream past ideas I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing. Chuck Palahniuk bored writing sex The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. Chuck Palahniuk fighting stranger We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. Chuck Palahniuk language long firsts Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars. Chuck Palahniuk velvet dollars blue Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better. Chuck Palahniuk feelings might years Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me. Chuck Palahniuk use want hair That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire. Chuck Palahniuk powerful mother beautiful Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened. Chuck Palahniuk matter house people Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there. Chuck Palahniuk hate evil giving Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. Chuck Palahniuk fight-club-book snowflake walnuts
