I hope that the next time the USDA brings this up they take into account the American farmer and actually consult with Congress.


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Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
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
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
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