Chuck Palahniuk: Trending quotes (page 18)

“History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”

“This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.”

“I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived… and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.”

“Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.”

“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”

“Believe in me and die forever.”

“Love and life belongs to great risk.”

“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.”

“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”

“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.”

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

“I would pay snakes to bite her.”

“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”

“Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.”

“Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.”

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

“The more things you own, the more they own you.”

“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”