Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 24

I'm only confrontational with my friends. (Chuck Palahniuk)
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. View quote
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For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real. View quote
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If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. View quote
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Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary. View quote
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Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur. View quote
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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. View quote
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Weather today is an increasing trend toward denial. View quote
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. View quote
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want. View quote
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There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. (Chuck Palahniuk)
Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy. View quote
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The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker. View quote
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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself. View quote
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I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories. View quote
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What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling. View quote
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For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day. View quote
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Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating. View quote
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It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed. View quote
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No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake. View quote
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done... (Chuck Palahniuk)
We kind of deny the stages of life. View quote
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Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. View quote
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It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. View quote
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Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty fourseven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright. View quote
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