Chuck Palahniuk - People Quotes

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Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

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I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

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People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

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I love being with people. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. And the religion's leaders model a way of being. For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night – as does the narrator in Fight Club. Here's Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers. That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public.

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Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

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Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...

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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.

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We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.

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And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

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If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

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Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

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Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

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In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

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Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

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Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

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In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

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Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren't. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.

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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...

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There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buy s a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

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Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

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That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.

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