Chuck Palahniuk citations

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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.”

“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.”

“It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.”

“If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”

“The photographer in my head says:
Give me peace.
Flash.
Give me release.
Flash.”

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

“Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.”

“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.”

“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”

“Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.”

“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.”

“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.”

“After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.”

“More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!”