Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk Anymore, no one's mind is their own. Chuck Palahniuk mind It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die. Chuck Palahniuk space feelings jobs Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility! Chuck Palahniuk ego feel-better responsibility After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life Chuck Palahniuk giving boys two The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases who hide out here because they can't make it in the real world, in real jobs — isn't this why we left England in the first place? To establish our own alternate reality. Weren't the Pilgrims pretty much the crackpots of their time? For sure, instead of just wanting to believe something different about God's love, the losers I work with want to find salvation through compulsive behaviors. Chuck Palahniuk real jobs believe This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. Chuck Palahniuk burning letters museums The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour. Chuck Palahniuk jail girl sweet At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved. Chuck Palahniuk love-you hair people These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. Chuck Palahniuk these-days laughing people This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership. Chuck Palahniuk property-ownership ownership caring To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses. Chuck Palahniuk easy impossible way Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency. Chuck Palahniuk childhood adults children Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love. Chuck Palahniuk invisible-monsters like-love looks You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. Chuck Palahniuk our-generation glasses night The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger. Chuck Palahniuk fighting change running The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker. Chuck Palahniuk believe america people Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living. Chuck Palahniuk girl hurt doe Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. Chuck Palahniuk special-you relationship death Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know? Chuck Palahniuk someday sobriety stuff Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held. Chuck Palahniuk girl angel thinking
