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"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 little details. The facts."
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby.
"You’d be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away."
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby.
"This is about Helen Hoover Boyle. Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your attention. How your past goes with you into everyday of your future."
Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby.
"I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole story crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"It’s because we’re trapped in our culture, in the being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We’re so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we’re trained to want."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"The world,” Brandy says, “is your cradle and your trap."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"You’re about as free to act as a programmed computer. You’re about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill. There isn’t any real you in you,” she says."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"My point being,” Brandy says, “is you can’t escape the world, and you’re not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"Your folks are like God because you want to know they’re out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you’re in crisis and you need something."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
"We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters.
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