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People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
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.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
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.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
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?
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
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.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.
Quote by -Chuck Palahniuk
“The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.”
Quote by -David Finkel
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Quote by -George Orwell
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Quote by -George Orwell
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
Quote by -George Orwell
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
Quote by -George Orwell
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Quote by -George Orwell
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Quote by -George Orwell
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Quote by -George Orwell
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
Quote by -George Orwell
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Quote by -George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Quote by -George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Quote by -George Orwell
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
Quote by -George Orwell
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Quote by -George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Quote by -George Orwell
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Quote by -George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Quote by -George Orwell
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Quote by -George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
Quote by -George Orwell
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
Quote by -George Orwell