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Whole Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
- What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.
- For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing…
- I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the…
- Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
- I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,…
- No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience…
- You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
- At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked…
- The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases…
- Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your…
- 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…
- I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump…
- My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
- Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
- Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake…
- 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…
- People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the…
- What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to…
- The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.
- Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry...
- The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place…
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