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What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

Chuck Palahniuk
Dining, Kind, Persons
Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Men, Guy
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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
Culture, Way, Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

Chuck Palahniuk
Memories, Adventure, Stories

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

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Jobs, Fighting, Names

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

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Angel, Nuts, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

Chuck Palahniuk
Games, People, Pairs

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

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Want, Like You, Truth Is
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hero, Kids, Men
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, People, Ordinary
"Fright club" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2005.

We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Believe, Heart, Save Me
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

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Stories, Facts, Problem
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hurt, Knives, Untapped Potential
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.139, W. W. Norton & Company

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Mistake, Smart
"Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Passion, Hands

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

Chuck Palahniuk
Mistake, Thinking, Biggest Mistake
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hurt, People, Envy

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

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Beautiful, Looks, Assuming

Anymore, no one's mind is their own.

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Mind
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.19, Random House

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Chuck Palahniuk
Past, Chaos, Sometimes

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Fall, Want You Back
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk
Gun, Teeth, Vowels
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.

Chuck Palahniuk
Soul, Age, Phases
"Doomed". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, October 8, 2013.

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
Marine, College, Talking

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Pain, Hate, War
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.135, Random House

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