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Quotes About Youth

A lot of young people try to impress the world and buy too many things, the doorman said.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you're twenty-four," Marla says, "you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Driving east, I'm not sure what we're running from. Evie or the police of Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
please accept the fact that people do not change over time.The elderly are, in reality, age tikes.Conversely, the young are juvenile codgers.Granted, we might develop some skills, achieve some profound insights over a lifetime, but by and large who you are at eighty-five is who you were at five.One is either born intelligent or not.The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die the same person.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Your being born make your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan just because you want something better.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If no sing, all youth condemned into poverty. Denied possible advancement and self-realization
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Pimple young. Giggling young. Silly young and stupid as me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rant Casey no era malvado. Más bien parecía que estuviera intentando encontrar algo real en el mundo. Hoy día los niños no crecen conectados a nada, se pasan el tiempo enchufados y viviendo vidas que otra gente ha alucinado para ellos. Aventuras de segunda mano. Creo que Rant quería que todo el mundo experimentara por lo menos una aventura de verdad. En tanto que comunidad, algo que uniera a la gente.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm thirteen years old, and I'm somewhat overweight. Meaning: I'm dead and fat. Meaning: I'm a piggy-pig-pig, oink-oink, real porker. Just ask my mom. I'm thirteen and fat - and I will stay this way forever. And yes, I know the word ulcerate. I'm dead, not illiterate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Give me passion. Flash. Give me joy. Flash. Give me youth and energy and innocence and beauty. Flash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The doorman leaned into my shoulder and said, A lot of young people don't know what they really want.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
No me habían follado así desde la escuela primaria.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Street gangs were really young men raised without fathers, just trying to help one another become men.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jump back twenty years to the white house where I grew up with my father shooting super-8 movies of my brother and me running around the yard. Jump to present time with my folks sitting on lawn chairs at night, and watching these same super-8 movies projected on the white side of the same white house, twenty years later.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Annemin hoparlördeki boÄŸuk ve h???rt?l? sesi; 'Doktor olmaya nas?l karar verdin?' diye soruyor. Paige omuz silkiyor; 'İnsan?n gençliÄŸini bir ÅŸeyle takas etmesi gerekiyor...
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You young people, you who think you invented fun and drugs, fuck you
~ Chuck Palahniuk
When you're 24 you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not for money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
~ Chuck Palahniuk