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Sorry for not updating much and whatnot.

Busy weekend.  I’ll be back on track tomorrow, hopefully.

I’m finding Survivor a little harder to grab quotes from.  Not because it’s bad or anything- it’s just written in a style that makes it difficult.  Like, Invisible Monsters had small paragraphs, very quick thoughts, and was great to quote.  Survivor is similar, though the paragraphs are generally longer, and intertwined with thoughts and events from other things going on at the same time, so it’s harder to find a stand-alone quote.

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Here in the cockpit of Flight 2039, the first of the four engines has just flamed out. Where we’re at right here is the beginning of the end.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 175

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You can tell people the truth, but they’ll never believe you until the event. Until it’s too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 177

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There’s a gas station going to explode next week. There’s a pet store where all the canaries, their whole inventory of hundreds of canaries, will escape. Fertility has previewed all this in dream after dream. There’s a hotel where a water pipe is leaking right this moment. For weeks, the water has been dripping inside the walls, dissolving plaster, rotting wood, rusting metal, and at 3:04 next Tuesday afternoon, the mammoth crystal chandelier in the middle of the lobby ceiling will drop.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 181

maia-speaks asked:
Diary is one of Palahniuk's best books, same with Lullabye. Trust me, they're worth reading.

Well…maybe I’ll give them a look once I’m finished with the big pile I have already.  I just made quick judgements about them based on my friend’s advice, and from what I saw online, so they probably deserve another chance.

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Hurry,” she says. “Some firemen will be coming up here in a few minutes.” She takes my hands in hers and says, “Let’s not let this Cha-Cha go to waste.”
One, two, cha cha cha. We dance, three, four, cha cha cha.
The wreckage, the burned arms and legs of the clothes tangled on the floor around us, the ceiling hanging down, the water still falling, everything soaking wet, we dance one, two, cha cha cha.
And that’s just how they find us.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 182

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I saw all this happen in a dream,” Fertility says. “We were never in any real danger.”
This is the same as her and Trevor on the ocean liner that only sank halfway.
“Next week,” Fertility says, “there’s a commercial bakery that’s going to explode. You want to go watch? I see at least three or four people getting killed.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 183

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It was church doctrine that the rest of your life would be the same work. The same being alone. Nothing would change. Every day. This was success. Here was the prize.
Mowing the lawn.
And mowing the lawn.
And mowing the lawn.
Repeat.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 192-191

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With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would be like cleaning up after a stranger every day. Washing dishes all day. Feeding a stranger’s children. Mowing a lawn. All day. Painting houses. Year after year. Ironing bedsheets.
Forever and ever.
Work without end.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 193

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We knew what kind of jobs we were headed for in the wicked outside world from what the elders said to scare or inspire us. To make us work harder, they told us about wonderful jobs in gardens bigger than anything we could picture this side of Heaven. Some jobs were in palaces so enormous you forgot you were indoors. These gardens were called amusement parks. The palaces, hotels.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 194

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Every session we had, she diagnosed me with another problem she thought I might have, and she gave me a book so I could study the symptoms. By the next week, I had whatever the problem was down pat.

One week, pyromaniac. One week, gender identity disorder.

She told me I was an exhibitionist so the next week, I mooned her.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 208

And this is why I don’t let my sister borrow my books.

And this is why I don’t let my sister borrow my books.

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Looking good is not part of the big plan. My plan is to look like untapped potential. The look I’m going for is natural. Real. The look I’m after is, raw material. Not desperate and needy, but ripe with potential. Not hungry. Sure, I want to look like I’m worth the effort. Washed but not ironed. Clean but not polished. Confident but humble.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, p. 220-219

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The other rules just went on and on. God forbid you should ever dance. Or eat refined sugar. Or sing. But the most important rule to remember was always:
If the members of the church district colony felt summoned by God, rejoice. When the apocalypse was imminent, celebrate, and all Creedish must deliver themselves unto God, amen.

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-  Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk, P. 229

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