Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial."
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"That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelings and sensitivity. Just made-up subjective emotional crap. There is no soul. There is no God. There's just decisions and disease and death."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time. The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,"
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Ignorance was bliss."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
"Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us."
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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