Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 5

Some people still think knowledge is power.

trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.

..statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

Hayati dogru duzgun yasamak icin egitilmisiz biz. Hata yapmamak icin. Ne kadar buyuk bir hata yaparsam, o kadar kurtulma ve gercek bir hayat yasama sansim olacagini fark ettim.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else.
You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.

What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

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.