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Quotes About Individuality

nails. The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.'' The space monkey continues, ''Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe what I liked most about dancing is the rules. In a world where anything goes, here are solid arbitrary rules.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My best work is not behind me! He yells, You know, nobody does a better split-reed standing anal with an on-demand hands-free pop-shot release.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. In
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Brandy says not to watch myself too close. Honey, she says, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free. Survivor
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The dreaming world, they'd think we were crazy. Those people still in bed, they'd be asleep another hour, then washing their faces, under their arms, and between their legs, before going to the same work they did every day. Living that same life, every day.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nada en mí es original. Soy el esfuerzo combinado de todas las personas a las que he conocido. Yo escribo y Brandy lee. La persona a la que quieres y la persona que te quiere nunca son la misma persona.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The thing about being cloned from all those shampoo commercials, well, that goes for me and Brandy Alexander, too. Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No sois un hermoso copo de nieve individual. Estáis hehcos de la misma materia orgánica corrompible que todos los demás, y todos formamos parte del mismo montón de abono
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If I had a tumor, I'd name it Marla.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Fuck damnation, man! Fuck redemption! We are God's unwanted children? So be it!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
An orange-stained Los Angelina she wasn't. Not yet another bimbo beat hard with a blonde stick.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, someplace to be that's not on the map. A real adventure. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Kendimi gittikçe kendimin berbat bir taklidi haline geliyormuÅŸum gibi hissediyorum
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Anymore, no one's mine is their own.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You know how you look at ugly hunchback girls, and they are so lucky. Nobody drags them out at night so they can't finish their doctorate thesis papers. They don't get yelled at by fashion photographers if they get infected ingrown bikini hairs. You look at burn victims and think how much time they save not looking in mirrors to check their skin for sun damage.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Tu non sei un delicato e irripetibile fiocco di neve. Tu sei la stessa materia organica deperibile di chiunque altro e noi tutti siamo parte dello stesso cumulo in decomposizione.
~ Chuck Palahniuk