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.”

“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

“My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.”

“Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.”

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra…”

“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.”

“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”

“What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?”

“Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?”

“Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”

“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.”

“All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.”

“His computer password is "password.”

“Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”

“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

“Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.”

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”

“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”

“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”

“Art never comes from happiness.”

“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”

“We're the culture that cried wolf.”

“How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

“Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”