Chuck Palahniuk: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 6)

“Everyone's in their own personal coma.”

“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?”

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

“The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.”

“With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.”

“Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.”

“Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?”

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”

“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”

“Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.”

“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”

“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

“This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”

“After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.”

“We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”

“People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.”