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.”

“We just had a near-life experience!”

“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.”

“What would Tyler Durden do?”

“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”

“Maybe we should always assume the worst.”

“Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.”

“You always kill the one you love.”

“I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.”

“More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“Sorry, mom.
Sorry, God.”

“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'

Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.”

“How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?”

“You have to keep recycling yourself.”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”

“Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?”

“If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?”

“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”

“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”

“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”

“The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.”

“There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.”

“Self improvement is masturbation…”

“Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.”

“you're doomed at being you.”

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own.”

“That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.”

“Skinny guys fight till they're burger.”