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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Chuck Palahniuk quotes about dream

American Novelist, Writer February 21, 1961

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Chuck Palahniuk quote: "That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something..."
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. Chuck Palahniuk
Death is a long process," Archer says. "Your body is just the first part of you that croaks." Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can... Chuck Palahniuk
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream. Chuck Palahniuk
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create. Chuck Palahniuk
Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink. Chuck Palahniuk
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. Chuck Palahniuk
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks,..."
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. Chuck Palahniuk

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