Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'
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This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.
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'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
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It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.
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How sweet! You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.
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If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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'Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.' p205
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What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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In journalism school, what they want you to be is a camera. A trained, objective, detached professional. Accurate, polished, and observant. They want you to believe that the new and you are always two separate things. Killers and reporters are mutually exclusive. Whatever the story, this isn't about you.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'
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Some stories, Mr.Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288
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For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
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If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.
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'The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.
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No detail is too minor to note.
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'Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,' he says, 'you'll always be controlled by the world.'
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You will always have some excuse not to live your life.
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As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'
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'When you think about it from a native plant perspective,' Oyster says.'Johnny Apple seed was a fucking biological terrorist.'