“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“Looming visage noble American colonel. Courageous, renown of history, Colonel Sanders, image forever accompanied odor of sacrificial meat. Eternal flame offering wind savory perfume roasted flesh.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“If no sing, all youth condemned into poverty. Denied possible advancement and self-realization”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich cultural diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special-in actual, remaining no power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“...individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich culture diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special--in actual, remaining no power. Only when wedded to state purpose grants the citizen actual power. State mission and plan creates helpless individual as noble identity with grand reason for exist.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
“La deidad superior ordena que todas las criaturas vivas sufran -consumidas por enfermedad o gritando con cobertura corporal de sangre-, y que luego llega un día en que todas tienen que morir. (…) Si un agente da patadas frecuentes a un perro… si golpea con bofetones de mano a la compañera reproductiva… si ese agente asesina con puñal a un compañero, eso imita la lección correcta de la deidad” (Comunicado 5º).”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Pygmy
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“I soon discovered he was not a man of many words, but rather a man of the right words.”
― Katy Evans, quote from Manwhore
“I spent a long time thinking in bed. It’s strange how when so much is taken from you, you start to think about the otherworldly. Adam and myself would never have entertained thoughts of angels, or said prayers when we were riding high. I put the card with the feather on my bedside table and stared at it for a long time before I fell asleep.”
― Robert Bryndza, quote from Coco Pinchard's Big Fat Tipsy Wedding
“I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.”
― Jane Bowles, quote from Two Serious Ladies
“My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.”
― Stefne Miller, quote from Collision
“Overtaken by demographic transformation and two generations of socio-geographic mobility, France’s once-seamless history seemed set to disappear from national memory altogether.
The anxiety of loss had two effects. One was an increase in the range of the official patrimoine, the publicly espoused body of monuments and artifacts stamped ‘heritage’ by the authority of the state. In 1988, at the behest of Mitterrand’s Culture Minister Jack Lang, the list of officially protected items in the patrimoine culturel of “France—previously restricted to UNESCO-style heirlooms such as the Pont du Gard near Nîmes, or Philip the Bold’s ramparts at Aigues-Mortes—was dramatically enlarged.
It is revealing of the approach taken by Lang and his successors that among France’s new ‘heritage sites’ was the crumbling façade of the Hôtel du Nord on Paris’s Quai de Jemappes: an avowedly nostalgic homage to Marcel Carné’s 1938 film classic of that name. But Carné shot that movie entirely in a studio. So the preservation of a building (or the façade of a building) which never even appeared in the film could be seen—according to taste—either as a subtle French exercise in post-modern irony, or else as symptomatic of the unavoidably bogus nature of any memory when subjected thus to official taxidermy.”
― Tony Judt, quote from Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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