Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

Was uns in der Hölle quält, ist unser Festhalten an einer einmal gewählten Identität.

Still—leave it to an American to take something too far.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

It's that kind of faux wisdom. That kind of Chinese food enlightenment where you know that ten minutes after your head clears, you'll forget it all.

telling me makes perfect sense. For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved? With all due respect. According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get.

To escape, he'd married a woman who already counted her affections by the pfennig and dealt them out as a miser, as scant wages for those behaviors she wished to cultivate in husband and son. Even in the merriest circumstances, Felix's wife could surrender herself to an unhappy mood. These attributes he recognized, too late, she shared with his mother. Not impossible was the idea that he was acclimatized to finding comfort in such familiar discomfort.

Meine kleinkarierte Angst vor persönlicher Zurückweisung erlaubt so vielem wahren Bösen zu existieren. Meine Feigheit ermöglicht Greueltaten.

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. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death

Ich bin voller Zuversicht und Entschlossenheit und verfüge über einen freien Willen – zumindest nehme ich das an …

That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.

L'irreale è più potente del reale. Perché la realtà non arriva mai al grado di perfezione cui può spingersi l'immaginazione.

Öldür kendini, diyorum. Öldür kendini. Öldür kendini. K?z?n biri aray?p, Ölmek insan?n can?n? çok yakar m?? diye soruyor. Bak tatl?m, diyorum, evet yakar ama, yaÅŸamaya devam etmek çok daha fazla ac?t?r. Sadece merak etmiÅŸtim diyor. KardeÅŸim geçen hafta intihar etti de. Çev. Funda Uncu

shoulder. They weigh that much. Tyler's a banquet waiter

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

Sabe aquele ditado que diz que a gente destrói quem mais ama? Bom,o inverso também é verdadeiro.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late.

What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control if the game. It's the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow us a first definite step down some road.

hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. Who

Pak zapne televizi, b?ží tam nÄ›jaký seriál, znáte to, skute?ní lidé, co pÃ…â"¢edstírají, že jsou faleÅ¡ní lidé s vymyÅ¡lenými problémy, a na to se dívají skute?ní lidé, co zapomenou na své skute?né problémy.

Chorar é só o que dá para fazer nesta escuridão asfixiante (...) quando você percebe que tudo o que já fez não passa de lixo.

Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character.

To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.

Between the yams and the stuffing, Dad looks down at his plate and says, "Do you know about rimming?" I know it isn't table talk. "And fisting?" my mom asks.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. Bob