I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th...
CHUCK DALY Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX Playing safe is only playing.
CHUCK OLSON Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
CHUCK HILLIS Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart.
CHUCK D I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stair...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and ...
CHUCK COLSON Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and bi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo...
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