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 have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless!”

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”

“The future is just wasted on some people.”

“You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.”

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”

“Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.”

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

“Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.”

“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.”

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

“By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”

“I tiger can smile
A snake will say it loves you
Lies make us evil”

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”

“If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?”

“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

“I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.”

“A book is as private and consensual as sex.”

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.”

“Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.”

“I am Jack's smirking revenge.”