Chuck Palahniuk - Moment Quotes

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The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

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We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

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Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

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For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

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Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

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At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

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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. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

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Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

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Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

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Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

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Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

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