Chuck Palahniuk: Zitate auf Englisch

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“You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby

“Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Quelle: Fight Club

“There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Quelle: Fight Club

“Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Diary

Quelle: Diary

“You just don’t expect to meet dead people.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Invisible Monsters

Invisible Monsters

“Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us," Mr Whittier says, "It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 21

“Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“I do hereby and forever abandon abandoning all hope. Honestly, I give up on giving up. I'm just not cut out to be some hopeless, disillusioned wretch with no aspirations for the rest of the eternity, sprawled catatonic in my own feces on a cold stone floor. In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I still can't scrape together even a couple of days of hopelessness. Future scientists would call it Pollyanna Syndrome, and if forced to guess, I'd say that mine has been a way-long case of history chasing rainbows.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Damned

Damned (2011)

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

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Damned

Damned (2011)

“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“The whole idea of men creating perfect robot women for their own pleasure, it happens every day. The most "beautiful" women you see in public, none of them are for real. They're just men perpetuating their perverted stereotypes of women. Just the oldest story in the world. There's a penis on every page of Cosmopolitan magazine if you know where to look.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 15, Speaking Bitterness, A Story by Comrade Snarky

“For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 9, Exodus

“Our footsteps echo against the concrete floor. The steel roof hums with rain. And she says, 'Don't you feel, somehow, buried in history?”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 10

“I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did."”

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Chuck Palahniuk

On the creation of Fight Club
Interview with Rolling Stone (2002-09-19)

“Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 4, Slumming by Lady Baglady

“Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Lullaby (2002)

“You are permanent, but this life is not," Mr. Whittier would say. "You don't expect to visit an amusement park, then stay forever.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 6