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.”

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.”

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

“Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.”

“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.”

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

“Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.”

“This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.”

“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

“Why should I believe any of this?'
It happens that fast.
I say, because I think I like you.
Marla says, 'Not love?'
This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.”

“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.”

“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

“A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.”

“Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.”

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.”

“People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.”

“I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.”

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.”

“you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?”

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

“Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”