Chuck Palahniuk: Citáty anglicky (strana 15)

“No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.”

“The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.”

“Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?”

“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.”

“You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.”

“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”

“Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.”

“I am nothing, and not even that.”

“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!”

“In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.”

“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

“Help me give up my addiction to Hope.”

“We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.”

“Life is short, death is forever”

“Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.”

“The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them?
Because we were out of raspberries.
Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.”

“To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.”