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.”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.”

“It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.”

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.”

“No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.”

“If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.”

“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

“No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.”

“How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)”

“My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.”

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”

“She's so thin she's either dying or rich.”

“Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.”

“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.”

“Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.”

“It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make”

“You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.”

“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.”

“Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”

“Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.”

“Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”

“Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.”

“you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.”

“Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.”

“The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.”

“Ignorance was bliss.”

“Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?”