QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I don’t want to die without any scars.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. and we’re very very pissed off.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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DAMNED

Admin has a Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) thread.  I’ve read several of Chuck’s books, as he is a terrific writer. Funny as hell.  My favorite, even more than Fight Club, is “Damned”

Damned

Madison is the thirteen-year-old narrator of Damned. She is the daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a mari­juana overdose—and the next thing she knows, she’s in Hell. It’s a hilarious story with some terrific “spiritual” insight.   Quotes follow;

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It’s obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O’Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It’s my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. and we’re very very pissed off.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club