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“Personne ne veut reconnaître que nous sommes des drogués de musique. Ce n'est tout bonnement pas possible. Personne n'est drogué de musique, de télévision, de radio. Simplement, il nous en faut plus et plus, nous en avons besoin, plus de chaines, un écran plus grand, plus de volume. Nous ne supportons pas de nous en passer, mais, non personne n'est drogué.
Nous pourrions l'éteindre dès que nous le voudrions.”

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“Et puis, quand ils sont épuisés, les hommes et les femmes vont à l'église.
Et ils se marient.
Être fatigué n'est pas la même chose qu'être riche, mais la plupart du temps c'est assez proche.”

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Then, when they're exhausted, the men and woman go to church.
And they get married.
Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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Cette phrase est tirée de la post-face de l'édition 2006 de Fight Club et non du roman lui-même.
Fight Club

“Tu as une classe entière de jeunes hommes et femmes forts et solides, et ils veulent donner leur vie pour quelque chose. La publicité les fait tous courir après des voitures et des vêtements dont ils n'ont pas besoin. Ils travaillent dans des métiers qu'ils haïssent, par générations entières, uniquement pour pouvoir acheter ce dont ils n'ont pas
vraiment besoin. Nous n'avons pas de grande guerre dans notre génération, ni de grande dépression, mais si, pourtant,
nous avons bien une grande guerre de l'esprit. Nous avons une grande révolution contre la culture. La grande dépression, c'est nos existences.
Nous avons une grande dépression spirituelle.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk: Citations en anglais

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Invisible Monsters

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

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Invisible Monsters

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“We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Invisible Monsters

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 20, Cassandra, Another story by Mrs. Clarke
Source: Invisible Monsters

“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

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Variante: Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 11, Ritual

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Contexte: Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

“Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Rant

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“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Diary

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“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

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

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Invisible Monsters

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“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”

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“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Rant

Source: Rant

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Diary

Source: Diary

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”

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“I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Invisible Monsters

Variante: I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Source: Invisible Monsters