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“For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Jobs #Real #Men
“That guy behind me on the airplane? He's been kicking my seat because he hates me. He's kicking my seat because he hates me and I'm gonna kill him. When we get off this plane, I'm gonna make eye contact. I'm gonna kill that guy. And all of that is just stuff in my head, but it's good to get rid of that stuff.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Hate #Airplane #Eye
“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, youâ€™d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, youâ€™d never need more. That if enough people loved you, youâ€™d stop needing love.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Sleep #People #Needs
“I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#People #Twenties #Treasure
“You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Smart #Stupid #Needs
“I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves; they don't make us any stronger.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Thinking #Media #Age
“Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Beautiful #Cat #Thinking
“Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Creativity #Cutting #Ideas
“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Revenge #Long #Details
“For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Entertaining
“When you go out with a drunk, youâ€™ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as youâ€™re drinking, drinking is okay. Twoâ€™s company. Drinking is fun. If thereâ€™s a bottle, even if your glass isnâ€™t empty, a drunk, heâ€™ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Fun #Drinking #Two
“I hate how on TV they have to fill so many minutes. It means they have to put in anything, and by doing so they sort of trivialize news; news becomes this commodity that they need to fill dead time between commercials with.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Hate #Mean #Needs
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Life #Inspiring #Death
“Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Book #Doe #Movement
“Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Night #Vegas #Heaven
“Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Running #Anxiety #Drug
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Sometimes #Terrible #Things Happen
“I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Thinking #Names #Culture
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Couple #Issues #Years
“I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Perfect #Three #Four
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Love #Life #Dream
“To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Smart #People #Littles
“Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Book #Sick #Joy
“I think America is just so in love with conflict.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Thinking #America #Conflict
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Inspiring #Effort #Inspire
“If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Worry #Disaster
“The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Writing #Details #Kind
“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other peopleâ€¦â€¦..”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Real #Smart #People
“Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Frustration #Levels #Want
“Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.”
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Giving Up #Book #White

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