Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

hate is a form of passionate attachment, and to be despised seems better than to be unknown.

No somos especiales. Tampoco somos escoia ni basura. Simplemente, somos. Somos y ya está, y lo que pasa, simplemente pasa.

Durante un instante la mamaíta había visto la montaña sin pensar en explotaciones madederas, pistas de esquí ni avalanchas, vida natural controlada, geología de placas tectónicas, microclimas, efecto sombra de lluvia ni lugares yin-yang. Había visto la montaña sin el marco del lenguaje. Sin la cárcel de las asociaciones. La había visto sin mirar a través de la lente de todo lo que sabía acerca de las montañas.

DövüÅŸ kulübünün ilk kural? dövüÅŸ kulübü hakk?nda konuÅŸmamakt?r. DövüÅŸ kulübünün ikinci kural? dövüÅŸ kulübü hakk?nda konuÅŸmamakt?r.

But not to worry, he says. I have a badge and a gun and a penis.

It's just a book. It's not supposed to happen.

Forse Dio voleva che ce lo inventassimo noi, il nostro salvatore, una volta pronti. Quando proprio non ne avessimo più potuto fare a meno.

Marla... maldita turista, su mentira reflejaba la mía.

The insomnia distance of everything, a copy of a copy of a copy. You can't touch anything, and nothing can touch you.

A la gente que amas les puedes hacer cosas peores que matarlos. Lo normal es quedarse mirando cómo el mundo lo hace por ti. Solamente tienes que leer un periódico.

It's the mark of a very, very young soul," Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.

On Northeast Mississippi Avenue

why is it a terrible battle scene like picasso's guernica can be beautiful, while a painting of two unicorns kissing in a flower garden can look like crap. does anybody really know why they like anything?

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

perchè appena uno trova una buona ragione per farle, le cose perdono il loro fascino.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist.

Io ho bisogno che qualcuno abbia bisogno di me, ecco cosa. Ho bisogno di qualcuno per cui essere indispensabile. Di una persona che si divori tutto il mio tempo libero, il mio ego, la mia attenzione. Qualcuno che dipenda da me. Una dipendenza reciproca.

Why is it a terrible battle scene like Picasso's Guernica can be beautiful, while a painting of two unicorns kissing in a flower garden can look like crap. Does anybody really know why they like anything?

The insomnia was on again, and I was in the mood to destroy something beautiful

You only have a few hours. And remember, he yelled, you don't know exactly when the fuel will run out. There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story. And I yelled, So what else is new?

It's crazy, but you invest all your emotion in just this one tiny goldfish, even after six hundred and forty goldfish, and you can´t just let the little thing starve to death.

The fifth rule about Project Mayhem is you have to trust Tyler.

Lo que había visto en aquel instante ni siquiera era una montaña. No era un recurso natural. No tenía nombre. -Esa es la gran meta- dijo-. Encontrar una cura para el conocimiento.