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81 " The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. "
― Chuck Palahniuk
82 " Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper.My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done. "
83 " All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Diary
84 " The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Snuff
85 " For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Pygmy
86 " Some people still think knowledge is power. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Lullaby
87 " Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Invisible Monsters
88 " Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
89 " Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life. "
90 " The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. "
91 " By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself. "
92 " After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy. "
93 " Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Fight Club
94 " A book is as private and consensual as sex. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Haunted
95 " This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power. "
96 " Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. "
97 " Find out what you're afraid of and go live there. "
98 " Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)
99 " It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too. "
100 " There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them. "