I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
- 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?
- I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
- Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
- Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
- 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?
- Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
- Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Best Quotes
- If we try to give smile to others, unknowingly it comes back to our face.
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
- I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
- Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
- For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.
- Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
- No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
- It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.