"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."
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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"
Chuck Palahniuk"If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering."
Chuck Palahniuk"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."
Chuck Palahniuk"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"
Chuck Palahniuk"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
Chuck Palahniuk"What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises."
Chuck Palahniuk"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."
Chuck Palahniuk"I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity."
Chuck Palahniuk"We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior."
Chuck Palahniuk"My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers."
Chuck Palahniuk"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
Chuck Palahniuk"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."
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