Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.
Chuck PalahniukHow can you possibly believe he really loves you?โ Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittierโs hand.โYou have no choice,โ Mr. Whittier tells her. โIf you need to be loved.
Chuck PalahniukEvery time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
Chuck PalahniukSchools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
Chuck PalahniukBeginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
Chuck PalahniukAn important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.
Chuck Palahniuk