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First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving, Parent, Trying
Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

Chuck Palahniuk
Self, Hands, Giving
"Diary". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 26, 2003.

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk
Baby, Coping Mechanisms, Giving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hate, Evil, Giving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.294, W. W. Norton & Company

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

Chuck Palahniuk
Kings, Home, Giving

I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things because they see it as a system that doesn't necessarily work and give them a sense of adulthood and fulfillment. They're much more in tune with wanting to achieve a skill, a form of self-expression, or a body of knowledge that fulfills the same function, fulfills their adulthood.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Giving, People
Source: www.esquire.com

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Cancer, Giving, Sin

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving, Photographer, Release
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.101, W. W. Norton & Company

I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

Chuck Palahniuk
Baby, Talking, Giving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Chuck Palahniuk
Names, Giving, Labels
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

Chuck Palahniuk
Beautiful, Giving, Soul
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving, Romance, Denial
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving, Forever, Experts

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk
Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Giving, Narrators

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, People, Giving

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

Chuck Palahniuk
Boys, Two, Giving
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk
Revenge, Coping Mechanisms, Giving
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Giving, Car
Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I'm a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Thinking, Giving
"Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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