Chuck Palahniuk: Trending quotes (page 14)

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”

“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”

“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”

“Art never comes from happiness.”

“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”

“We're the culture that cried wolf.”

“How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

“Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”

“Some people still think knowledge is power.”

“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”

“If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.”

“Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.”

“If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.”

“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”

“My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.”

“Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.”

“According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.”