Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Cars

Quotes about: Cars

• You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Car, Choices, Crash

• As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, War, Cancer

• 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 and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. 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 have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, Strong, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

• In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clothes, Rocks, Car

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

• Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Barbie Dolls, Car, Vacuums

• you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Teacher, People, Car

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.217, W. W. Norton & Company

• A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her kids won't behave. Without missing a beat, I tell her, Kill yourself. A man calls to say his car won't start. Kill yourself. A woman calls to ask what time the late movie starts. Kill yourself. She asks, "Isn't this 555-1327? Is this the Moorehouse CinePlex? I say, Kill yourself. Kill yourself. Kill yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Kids, Men, Practice

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.52, Random House

• People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Giving, Car

  Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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