Origine: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Contesto: Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

“Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Rabbia

Origine: Rant

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Diary

Origine: Diary

“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.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Origine: Fight Club

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Invisible Monsters

Origine: Invisible Monsters

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”

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“We'll never be as young as we are tonight.”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Rabbia

Origine: Rant

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Cavie

Origine: Haunted (2005)

“You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Diary

Origine: Diary

“The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.”

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“I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.”

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Chuck Palahniuk libro Invisible Monsters

Variante: I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Origine: Invisible Monsters

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Origine: Fight Club

“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Origine: Fight Club

“The more things you own, the more they own you.”

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Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variante: The things you used to own, now they own you.
Origine: Fight Club