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. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that’s usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?…Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
The same’s those talk shows on television, it’s so easy to be honest with a big enough audience. You can say anything if enough people will listen.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
Jump to how life was when you were a baby and you could only eat baby food. You’d stagger over to the coffee table. You’re up on your feet and you have to keep waddling along on those Vienna sausage legs or fall down. Then you get to the coffee table and bounce your big soft baby head on the sharp corner.
You’re down, and man, oh man, it hurts. Still it isn’t anything tragic until Mom and Dad run over. Oh, you poor, brave thing. Only then do you cry.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
Over breakfast every morning, he’d show me glossy pictures of guys self-sucking. Curled up with their elbows hooked behind their knees and craning their necks to choke on themselves, each guy would be lost in his own little closed circuit. You can bet almost every guy in the world’s tried this.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
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 it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk |
How sweet! You still believe in death… that’s just so… quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there’s no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don’t waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.
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| — | By Chuck Palahniuk from You Ask the Questions (The Independent Review) |
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via vaga-bonds) |
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 it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.
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| — | From Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via ivylively) |
Choke
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
by Chuck Palahniuk (via col-legno)
