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“Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise," he says, "you'll always be controlled by the world.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All these little doses of emotion. Someone's always spraying the air with their mood.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 22

“Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.
So just relax, Helen Boyle told me, and just enjoy the ride.
She said, "Even absolute corruption has its perks.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 9

“The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.”

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Closing remarks made on an eClass forum (Barnes & Noble University) (2004-12-05)

“Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“In order to save the world, Jesus Christ suffered for about thirty-six hours on the cross. I am willing to suffer an eternity in hell for the same cause.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 26

“Some stories, Mr. Whitter would say, you tell them and you use them up. Other stories, they use you up. p288”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our head says, 'I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew.' Meaning: I may be me - but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Damned

Damned (2011)

“What you have to love about drinking is, every swallow is an irrevocable decision. You charging ahead, in control if the game. It’s the same with pills, sedatives and painkillers, every swallow us a first definite step down some road.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

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

“Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Haunted (2005)

“Why have I sold out? You think I'm supposed to grow old, beating some trite old protest drum that people don't hear anymore? Please; protest is now just a backdrop for a Diesel clothing ad in a slick fashion magazine. My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way. It's time — for me, at least — to be clever and seduce people by entertaining them. I'll never be heard if I'm always ranting and griping.”

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"You Ask The Questions," The Independent Review (2004-03-25)

“The earth, he'd say, is just a big machine. A big processing plant. A factory. That's your big answer. The big truth. Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes round. We're the rocks. And what happens to us--the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse--why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 6

“Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 20

“Doctor Sarah didn't start out by attacking and berating everybody who called her radio show," Mona says. "She used to have a little time slot and a little audience, and she seemed to really care about helping people."”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 22

“The way you can go to Paris or Beijing, Oyster says, and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological equivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra mussels. Water hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings. The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out.. He says, "We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time."”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 19

“These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Lullaby

Quelle: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Quelle: Haunted (2005), Chapter 10, Punch Drunk

“I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.”

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Chuck Palahniuk buch Haunted

Haunted (2005)
Variante: I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong, again.