Chuck Palahniuk

“Brandy says, "Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes." Brandy says, "I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life.”

“A veces haces algo y estas jodido, y otras estás jodido por lo que no haces.”

“How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?”

“Tu as une classe entière de jeunes hommes et femmes forts et solides, et ils veulent donner leur vie pour quelque chose. La publicité les fait tous courir après des voitures et des vêtements dont ils n'ont pas besoin. Ils travaillent dans des métiers qu'ils haïssent, par générations entières, uniquement pour pouvoir acheter ce dont ils n'ont pasvraiment besoin.Nous n'avons pas de grande guerre dans notre génération, ni de grande dépression, mais si, pourtant,nous avons bien une grande guerre de l'esprit. Nous avons une grande révolution contre la culture. La grande dépression, c'est nos existences.Nous avons une grande dépression spirituelle.”

“Anonymity is the new fame.”

“What stops you here is what stops your entire life."The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

“Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.”

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.”

“Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive....My regular little dress rehearsal...the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.”

“Every family is a regular little cult.”

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk"Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation.”

“Non sai mai quanto sei forte, finché essere forte è l’unica scelta che hai.”

“She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.”

“If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.”

“The pinup girl, Betty Grable, sprayed her bare butt and breasts with hairspray until they were wet. That way the top and bottom of her swimsuitstayed glued where she wanted. Hairspray inside your high heels works the same way.”

“Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass.”

“İnsanlar dünyanın düzenli ve güvenli bir yer olması için yıllarca çalıştılar. Ama hiç kimse bunun ne kadar sıkıcı olabileceğinin farkında değildi. Bütün dünyanın parsellendiğini, hız limitleri konduğunu, bölümlere ayrıldığını, vergilendirildiğini ve düzenlendiğini, bütün insanların sınavlardan geçirildiğini, fişlendiğini, nerede oturduğunun, ne yaptığının kaydının tutulduğunu düşünün. Hiç kimseye macera yaşayacak bir alan kalmadı, satın alınabilenler hariç. Lunaparka gitmek gibi. Film izlemek gibi. Ama bunlar yine de sahte heyecanlardı. Dinazorların çocukları yemeyeceğini bilirsiniz. Büyük bir sahte afetin olma şansı bile oy çoğunluğuyla ortadan kaldırıldı. Gerçek afet veya risk ihtimali olmadığından, gerçek kurtuluş şansı da ortadan kalkmış oldu. Gerçek mutluluk yok. Gerçek heyecan yok. Eğlence, keşif, buluş yok.Bizi koruyan kanunlar aslında bizi can sıkıntına mahkum etmekten başka bir işe yaramazlar.Gerçek karmaşaya ulaşamadığımız sürece, asla gerçekten huzurlu olamayacağız.Her şey berbat bir hal almadığı sürece, yoluna da girmeyecek.Bürokrasimiz ve kanunlarımız dünyayı temiz ve güvenli bir toplama kampına çevirdi.Kölelerden oluşan bir jenerasyon yetiştiriyoruz.Çocuklarımıza çaresiz olmayı öğretiyoruz.Öyle planlanmış vaziyetteyiz ve ince ince yönetiliyoruz ki, burası artık dünya olmaktan çıktı. Burası lanet olası bir sahil güvenlik teknesi oldu.”

“The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander”

“My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.”

“Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”

“When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep and you're never really awake.”

“Art never comes from happiness.”

“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.”

“You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.”

“Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you.”

“Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.”

“People can't concieve of a virtue in someone else that they can't coneive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weake. You're addicted to self-abuse. You're a liar. People are always ready to believe the opposite of what you tell them.”

“We use criticism as a fake participation.”

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

“En la antigua Roma, dice la Hermana Justiciera, en el Coliseo, el "editor" era el hombre que organizaba los deportes sangrientos que eran la forma principal de mantener a la gente pacificada y unida. De ahí es de donde viene realmente la palabra "editor". Hoy día, nuestro editor planea el menú de asesinatos, violaciones, incendios provocados y asaltos que hay en la portada del periódico del día.”

“Cuando nos morimos, esas son las historias que siguen en nuestro labios. Las historias que solamente les contamos a desconocidos, en algún lugar íntimo de la celda acolchada de la medianoche. Esas historias importantes que nos pasamos años ensayando mentalmente pero que nunca contamos. Esas historias son fantasmas, que traen a la gente de vuelta de entre los muertos. Solamente un momento. De visita. Cada historia es un fantasma.”

“Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”

“Lovely, forgettable faces, born to flirt and fuck and die.”

“Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.”

“The problem is, if you never weep in public... well, the public assumes you never weep.”

“The damaged love the damaged.”

“It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.”

“If the prodigal son had never left home, the fattened calf would still be alive.”

“Cancer will be like that, I tell Marla. There will be mistakes, and maybe the point is not to forget the rest of yourself if one little part might go bad.”

“I am Jack's broken heart.”

“Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.”

“My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.”

“Si estás leyendo esto, el aviso va dirigido a ti. Cada palabra que leas de esta letra pequeña inútil, es un segundo menos de vida para ti. ¿No tienes otras cosas que hacer? ¿Tu vida esta tan vacia que no se te ocurre otra forma de pasar estos momentos? ¿o te impresiona tanto la autoridad que concedes credito y respeto a todos los que dicen ostentarla? ¿lees todo lo que te dicen que leas? ¿Piensas todo lo que te dicen que pienses? ¿Compras todo lo que te dicen que necesistas? Sal de tu casa, Busca a alguien del sexo opuesto. Basta ya de tantas compras y masturbaciones. Deja tu trabajo. Empieza a luchar. Demuestra que estás vivo. Si no reivindicas tu humanidad te convertirás en una estadística. Estás avisado...”

“Me has conocido en un momento extraño de mi vida”

“El condón es el zapatito de cristal de nuestra generación. Reservas uno cuando conoces a un extraño, bailas toda la noche... y luego lo tiras.”

“La autoperfección es simple masturbación, sólo la autodestrucción conlleva evolución”

“Encontré la libertad. Perder toda esperanza era la libertad”

“El oxígeno te coloca.”

“Quiero tener un aborto tuyo.”