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Charles Michael « Chuck » Palahniuk [tʃʌk ˈpɔːlənɪk], né le 21 février 1962 à Pasco dans l'État de Washington, est un romancier satirique américain et un journaliste indépendant. Après des études de journalisme qui ne lui permettent pas de vivre de ce métier, il devient mécanicien pendant 10 ans. Il écrit à cette époque Monstres Invisibles qui est refusé par les éditeurs en raison de son contenu trop provocant. Il entreprend alors l'écriture de Fight Club qui rencontre un succès notable et est porté à l'écran en 1999 par David Fincher. Il est assimilé au mouvement dit d'anticipation sociale. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. février 1962  •  Autres noms Чак Поланик
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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

“What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control if the game. It’s the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow us a first definite step down some road.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 4, Slumming by Lady Baglady

“Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time — for me, at least — to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping.”

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"You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review (2004-03-25)

“The earth, he'd say, is just a big machine. A big processing plant. A factory. That's your big answer. The big truth. Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes round. We're the rocks. And what happens to us--the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse--why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 6

“Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 20

“Doctor Sarah didn't start out by attacking and berating everybody who called her radio show," Mona says. "She used to have a little time slot and a little audience, and she seemed to really care about helping people."”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 22

“The way you can go to Paris or Beijing, Oyster says, and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological equivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra mussels. Water hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings. The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out.. He says, "We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time."”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 19

“These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 10, Punch Drunk

“I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Haunted (2005)
Variante: I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.

“Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 26

“In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we're meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn't suffering. It was erosion. It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 6

“In journalism school, what they want you to be is a camera. A trained, objective, detached professional. Accurate, polished, and observant. They want you to believe that the new and you are always two separate things. Killers and reporters are mutually exclusive. Whatever the story, this isn't about you.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“I love being with people. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. And the religion’s leaders model a way of being. For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night – as does the narrator in Fight Club. Here’s Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers. That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public.”

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Quoted in Andrew Lawless, "Those burnt tongue moments - Chuck Palahniuk in interview" http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/threemon_article_chuck_palahniuk_haunted_interview.htm, Three Monkeys (May 2005)

“When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy them, but now they call this free will. At least the Greeks were being honest.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“Down through the ceiling comes a fire siren and people screaming that we're supposed to ignore. The gunshots and tires squeeling, sounds wee have to pretend are okay. They don't mean anything. It's just television. An explosion vibrates down from the upstairs. A woman begs someone not to rape her. It's not real. It's just a movie. We're the culture that cried wolf.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 17

“I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 39

“It simply makes sense that I should miss my parents more than they miss me, especially when you consider that they only loved me for thirteen years while I loved them my entire life.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Damned

Damned (2011)

“Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand. Imagine seeing trends and fashions blur past you. Imagine the world more crowded and desperate every century. Imagine changing religions, homes, diets, careers, until none of them have any real value. Imagine traveling the world until you're bored with every square inch. Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played out again and again until life is nothing more than a melo-dramatic soap opera. Until you regard the birth and death of other people with no more emotion than the wilted cut flowers you throw away.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“Yes, and I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smokey eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's the kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive 'let them eat cake' type of chauvinism.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Damned

Damned (2011)

“To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 3

“Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Snuff

Snuff (2008)

“How sweet! You still believe in death… that's just so… quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.”

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"You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review (2004-03-25)

“I lost my virginity through my ear.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 15, Anticipation

“Here's Big Brother, singing and dancing, force-feeding you, so your mind never goes hungry enough to think.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

“A journalist has a right… …and a duty, to destroy the golden calves he helps create.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 5, Trade Secrets, A Poem About the Earl of Slander

“Every apostle or disciple," Mrs. Clarke says, "as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 8

“Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. …. Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? …. You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?”

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Chuck Palahniuk livre Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 23

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