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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Chuck Palahniuk quotes about moments

American Novelist, Writer February 21, 1961

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Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. Chuck Palahniuk
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. Chuck Palahniuk
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no... Chuck Palahniuk
My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment. Chuck Palahniuk
I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break..."
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. Chuck Palahniuk
You wake up, and you’re nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that’s enough. Chuck Palahniuk
People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party . . .As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the... Chuck Palahniuk
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the..."
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect of perfection Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional..."
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A moment is all you can expect from perfection."
A moment is all you can expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A moment is the most you could ever expect from perfection."
A moment is the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection"
A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection Chuck Palahniuk

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