Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about people (page 2)

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”

“The future is just wasted on some people.”

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”

“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing…”

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.”

“Some people still think knowledge is power.”

“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.”

“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”