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 best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.”

“At this rate, we'll never get to the future.”

“For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.”

“What you don't understand you can make mean anything.”

“Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?”

“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

“and i can't stand the idea of being alone.
i can't bear the thought of being free.”

“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”

“Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.”

“If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'

Clawing at the roof of her coffin.”

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

“The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.”

“Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.”

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

“She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.”

“HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.”

“Which is worse: Hell or nothing?”

“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”

“Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.”

“I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.”

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.”

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing…”

“After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life”

“For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.”

“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”

“The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.”