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Quotes from Haunted — Chuck Palahniuk

born 1962 United States

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With the angel of death going door to door, people stayed together. They quit bitching and behaved.

Haunted (2005)

For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.

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You can never set off to do the wrong thing.

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In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.

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"You are permanent, but this life is not," Mr. Whittier would say. "You don't expect to visit an amusement park, then stay forever."

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This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.

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"Every apostle or disciple," Mrs. Clarke says, "as much as they're running to follow their savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else."

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You can't unfuck a kid. Once you fuck a kid, you can't get that genie back in the bottle.

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Stink for privacy, the new way to protect personal space. Intimidation by odor.

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"A journalist has a right... ...and a duty, to destroy the golden calves he helps create."

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The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don't recognize as real.

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"It's not a matter of right and wrong," Mr. Whittier would say.

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"To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole."

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"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you." p205

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We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.

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You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

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Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.

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You can never say the wrong thing.

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If there's a trick to doing a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

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Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chuck Palahniuk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.