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Rant

Rant

Chuck Palahniuk

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey is a novel by Chuck Palahniuk released on May 1, 2007. Palahniuk has indicated that Rant is the first in what will become a three-book series.Rant is told in the form of an oral biography. When the story begins, the reader discovers that the main character, Buster Landru "Rant" Casey, is already deceased. Throughout the book various people discuss their memories of Buster and the world he lived in, presenting stories in an occasionally conflicting timeline.

„Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„We'll never be as young as we are tonight.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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Citát „History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.“

„History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

Variant: The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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„Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„What if reality is nothing but some disease?“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„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“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„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.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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„In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

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