The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.


Chuck Palahniuk

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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
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Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK