Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
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"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?"
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I have no native tongue."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"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
"The future is just wasted on some people."
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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