Chuck Palahniuk: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 19)

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

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.”

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

“Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.”

“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.”

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

“Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.”

“This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.”

“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.”

“Why should I believe any of this?'
It happens that fast.
I say, because I think I like you.
Marla says, 'Not love?'
This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.”

“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.”

“I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.”

“A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.”

“Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.”

“We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”