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Lives Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can…
- We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history…
- We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
- Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they…
- People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would…
- Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
- 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,…
- People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their…
- I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't…
- We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
- An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the…
- Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
- We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We…
- You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars…
- No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will…
- Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with…
- According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us…
- Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake…
- The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
- Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius