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People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Waiting, Turns

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Waiting, Dying

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Chuck Palahniuk
Waiting, Choke
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Chuck Palahniuk
Men, Waiting, Tables
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

Chuck Palahniuk
Waiting, World, Disaster
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

Chuck Palahniuk
Eye, Waiting, Shining
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