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It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

Chuck Palahniuk
Airplane, Talking, People

Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

Chuck Palahniuk
Wise, Men, Rights

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dream, Noses, Facts
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

Chuck Palahniuk
Unique, Special, Sacred
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.207, W. W. Norton & Company

I want to have your abortion.

Chuck Palahniuk
Abortion, Want
"FIGHT CLUB 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review" by Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 01, 2009.

The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads 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.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Gay, Voice
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.4, Random House

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

Chuck Palahniuk
Giving Up, Hate, Television Commercials
"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

Chuck Palahniuk
Names, Guy, Poverty
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

Chuck Palahniuk
Training, Shapes, Might
Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

Chuck Palahniuk
Clothes, Rocks, Car
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

Chuck Palahniuk
Gone, Thousand, Stills
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Honest, Life Is, Ifs
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Chuck Palahniuk
Real, Real Life, Ever After
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk
Quality, Amy, Stuff
"Chuck Palahniuk: 'I wrote the book while my mother was dying of cancer'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 03, 2011.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

Chuck Palahniuk
Long, Goal, Remember

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and adressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. [...] The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Palahniuk
Adventure, Years, Law

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

Chuck Palahniuk
War, Hero, Memorial

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, People, Giving

Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hands, Lines, Littles
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.73, Random House

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk
Intelligent, Needs, Next

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stars, Looks, Gone
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.143, Random House

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

Chuck Palahniuk
Hysteria, Audience
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

Chuck Palahniuk
Art, Giving Up, Clever

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

Chuck Palahniuk
Baby, Stupid, Kids

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

Chuck Palahniuk
Growing Up, Firsts, Moments
"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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