When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

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If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

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

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

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring...

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring...

A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman...

A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman...

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if...

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if...

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something...

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something...

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority...

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority...

A skeptic is someone who is frustrated beyond belief.

A skeptic is someone who is frustrated beyond belief.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here...

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here...

Real discoveries come from chaos.

Real discoveries come from chaos.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered...

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered...

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions....

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions....

The cat looks back at me the way dogs and some cars look when people...

The cat looks back at me the way dogs and some cars look when people...

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit