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Quotes About Adaptation

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing is static.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Our way of get­ting nos­tal­gic for what we just threw in the trash, it's all be­cause we're afraid to evolve. Grow, change, lose weight, rein­vent our­selves. Adapt.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
A different toothbrush waits in every time zone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My whole life is about for­get­ting. It's my most valu­able job skill.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it's been relocated miles away.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is the world we live in. Conditions change and we mutate.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Time legitimizes the outrageous.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Echo Lawrence(Party Crasher): If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favourite saying was 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.' Shot Dunyun(Party Crasher): That's bullshit. Rant's favourite saying was 'Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Edition to edition, the symptoms change. Sane people are insane by a new standard. People who used to be called insane are the picture of perfect mental health.
~ Chuck Palahniuk