“The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Variant: You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
Source: Invisible Monsters

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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