Чак Паланик: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 22)

“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”

“They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.”

“Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.”

“I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.”

“Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.”

“And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.”

“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 always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”

“Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go”

“Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.”

“She'd wear shades of lipstick you'd expect to see around the base of a penis.”

“Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.”

“The only thing that separates us from the animals… is we have pornography.”

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass."
Like somehow we're running out of time.”

“It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.”

“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.”

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”

“The lucky ones are just born dead.”

“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”

“It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.”