Chuck Palahniuk: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”

“You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.”

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.”

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

“If we can forgive what's been done to us… If we can forgive what we've done to others… If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

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

“Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.”

“In a world where vows are worthless. Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.”

“I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.”

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”

“Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.”

“I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.”

“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 the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

“You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.”