Funerals are all abstract ceremony. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain. Chuck Palahniuk mother liars believe All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Chuck Palahniuk optimistic bored life We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics. Chuck Palahniuk silence people needs It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. Chuck Palahniuk creativity criticism easy The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums. Chuck Palahniuk resignation weather today Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk goes-on dream people Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world. Chuck Palahniuk dancing imagination brother If you haven't already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus. Chuck Palahniuk lonely dream book Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple. Chuck Palahniuk drinking sex knowledge Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they simply can't live without and have the pleasure of falling in love with them day in and day out for the rest of their lives. Relationships aren't about simply falling in love once and being done with it, they're about loving someone until the end of your days and growing that love endlessly. Chuck Palahniuk loving-someone romantic-love falling-in-love I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may. Chuck Palahniuk perfect life fall All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad. Chuck Palahniuk be-good excuse reason Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. Chuck Palahniuk opiates parenthood parenting Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. Chuck Palahniuk real truth death When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk self-loathing hate monsters 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. Chuck Palahniuk imagination believe children If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world. Chuck Palahniuk forgiving done stories If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic. Chuck Palahniuk quitting-your-job claims humanity Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. Chuck Palahniuk coping-mechanisms baby giving We'll never be as young as we are tonight. Chuck Palahniuk tonight inspiring travel
