Quotes from Pygmy

Chuck Palahniuk ·  255 pages

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“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


About the author

Chuck Palahniuk
Born place: in Pasco, WA, The United States
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