Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Estamos todos atrapados. Es 1734 para siempre.

La belleza es poder, igual que el dinero es poder y que un arma cargada es poder.

El aire estará demasiado cargado de algo. Tu cuerpo siempre estará dolorido o demasiado cansado. Tu padre, demasiado borracho. Tu mujer será demasiado fría. Siempre tendrás alguna excusa para no vivir tu vida.

La única frontera que te queda es el mundo de lo intangible. Todo lo demás es demasiado restrictivo.

These people who need their television or stereo or radio playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.

Parásito» no es la palabra adecuada, pero es la primera palabra que viene a la mente.

Monster Girl Steals Festive Holiday Bird

Liberamos guerras. Luchamos por la paz. Combatimos el hambre. Nos encanta luchar. Luchamos y luchamos y luchamos, con armas, palabras o dinero. Y el planeta nunca es una pizca mejor de lo que era antes de nosotros.

I'm in love with a beautiful sex-crazed slut so why can't you just be happy for me?

I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it's supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you're dead as when you're alive.

Yes, Icarus fell to earth after flying too close to the sun, but what a glorious fall it must have been. Almost worth the flaming wings tied to his arms, waving helplessly in a shower of

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves.

Duchess: Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have pass'd through most jewellers' hands. Ferdinand: Whores, by that rule, are precious. —John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (I.ii)

Up those stairs, to anybody after the fiftieth dude, Cassie Wright will look like a missile crater greased with Vaseline. Flesh and blood, but like something's exploded inside her.

Posing girl, you are so Godawful ugly. Did you let an elephant sit on your face or what?

Since school, he'd come to expect so little from life. Nothing special, just to be treated with courtesy and politeness by the world. Wanted people to see him and not fear him, not admire him but just to see him. He wanted to be recognized so people would think twice before badgering or insulting him.

These chicken chokers. Didn't bother to read any feminist theory beyond that outdated Andrea Dworkin tripe. Nothing sex-positive. Nothing along the lines of Naomi Wolf. I come, therefore I am… No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

Los animales- dice el Eslabón Perdido - son nuestra forma de definir a los humanos. Sin animales no habría humanidad.

VÅ¡ak vám to je jasné. Nejde o to, kolik toho znáte. Jde o to, s kým vÅ¡ím se znáte.

what makes life feel like Hell is our expectation that it should last forever.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us." The

No soy tanto un buen amigo como el salvador que quiere que lo adores para siempre. No soy tanto un buen amigo como el padre que nunca quiere que crezcas.

Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.