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.”

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

“They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.”

“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”

“I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.”

“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

“And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.”

“No, none of us seem so very real.

We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.

Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”

“Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go”

“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”

“She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.”

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

“The only thing that separates us from the animals… is we have pornography.”

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

“It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.”

“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.”

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”

“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.”

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.”

“Nothing is static.”

“Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.”

“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?”

“What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.”

“The story is even Bill Wilson, a founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, couldn't overcome the sex monkey on his back, and spent his sober life cheating on his wife and filled with guilt.”

“So if you think this is going to save you… If you think anything is going to save you… Please consider this your final warning.”

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“this is the upside of already being eternally damned”