Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
- I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
- I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.
- I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
- Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
- If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
- The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
- I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Best Quotes
- It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
- In a gentle way, you can shake the world.