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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?


Chuck Palahniuk

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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and sl...
ELLEN DEGENERES You just have to keep driving down the road. It’s going to bend and curve and you’ll speed up an...
ELLEN DEGENERES Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw y...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If a woodchuck really could chuck wood..since you had to ask..it would chuck as much wood as a woodc...
RYAN CZARNECKI The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industri...
JOHN P. KOTTER You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA this is the upside of already being eternally damned
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich bin voller Zuversicht und Entschlossenheit und verfüge über einen freien Willen – zumindest ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Meine kleinkarierte Angst vor persönlicher Zurückweisung erlaubt so vielem wahren Bösen zu existi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Was uns in der Hölle quält, ist unser Festhalten an einer einmal gewählten Identität.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Wenn du es zulässt, tendiert deine Vergangenheit dazu, dir die Zukunft zu diktieren.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich stehe vor dem uralten Dilemma, entweder die eigenen Eltern oder die eigene Gottheit verraten zu ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hoffnung ist was sehr Widerspenstiges. Eine Sucht, die man bekämpfen muss.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Mädchen kriegen Titten und vergessen, wie klug und mutig sie einmal waren. Auch Jungen haben ihre e...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nein, fair ist das nicht, aber dass die Erde sich wie die Hölle anfühlt, liegt an unserer Erwartun...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Her...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Bestenfalls ein Bewacher. Schlimmstenfalls ein Voyeur.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein …
Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommuniziere...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Perfectionism is a slow death....If everything were to turn out just as I would want it, just as I w...
HUGH PRATHER I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club&...
JEN LANCASTER Cited from Chuck Palahniuk, 2003 - do not suffer do not rejoice, be not complimented or offended by ...
EJUMP - 2017 People need to slow down here. They need to put in some speed bumps or something. The just fly right...
JENNIFER MORRISON Its the same for every career and life decision. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's g...
ELLEN DEGENERES You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. I...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a le...
RUDYARD KIPLING Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely; they are awar...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dre...
JACK HANDY If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you co...
CAIO FONSECA She would come home and just work long enough to get enough money for the next plane ticket.
BECKY SARRO If you feel like your life is on a treadmill and you can't find time for what matters, get a new tre...
JOHN C. SENALL You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion.
ROD STEWART It occurred to me that instead of trying to make faster electronics, I should slow down time. If a s...
JAMES PORTMAN I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, ...
SEAN CONNERY It comes down to wrapping up. There were some plays there we didn't wrap up. We set our stage for wh...
ANDREW CONNOR The park, the woods, represents life. You go down to the memorial and come back up, it represents ca...
PETER WALKER If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you b...
SAMMI HANRATTY We can ramp up production faster, or when market cycles change, we can slow it down quicker.
HENK SCHEEPERS You can feel the engine get really slow really quickly and if you don't pull the clutch in quickly e...
ANTHONY WEST Technology is changing at warp speed. If you were to disappear and come back after 90 days, the Net ...
JAMES CANTON If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY To come back and maybe having to start a new offense over, we probably wouldn't fare well. It will s...
CHRIS CHAMBERS The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constan...
SHIRLEY MANSON It's a real acting challenge. There is no slow build here. There is no time for a long story arc. Th...
ROBERT GALINSKY This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, ... I guarantee you, if...
BOB KNIGHT I don't know if one airline right now feels comfortable with having a contract system. I have predic...
DARRYL JENKINS And come he slow, or come he fast,
It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this...
DANIEL HANDLER It would scare you to death if they were running up and down the field, it would scare you to death....
BOBBY BOWDEN You get him the ball enough times and he's going to break some. Guys like that come around once ever...
BUTCH STOKER Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I've said that I would play anything to do with 'Star Wars.' But really, deep down, I wo...
RAY PARK The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage...
MILAN KUNDERA After seeing how it went today, people thought it would slow things down but it actually helped spee...
GAYLE BRADSHAW Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up w...
IRVING R. KAUFMAN Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full hea...
LARRY DAVID Steps to a new home 'cause I'm not leaving this place. A tornado could come, and I'd still move back...
JENNIFER ORAND [The close wins] say we're not going down without a fight. We're going to come back. If you think yo...
LAUREN ROUSSELL It's like having a persistent drought. At some point when you have drought conditions you have to in...
DANIEL GOURE That run tightened the game up. We were trying to speed up the game rather than slow it down. We wer...
GERRY MATTHEWS I'm gonna give him all the credit he deserves because he's a beast down there. It's hard because he'...
BRANDON JOHNSON I suppose I’ve come a long way
from: being drunk enough to drive;
tired enough to replac...
PHIL VOLATILE As long as housing prices don't go down, consumers have more equity they can borrow against. If mort...
PETER MORICI When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and w...
WYCLEF JEAN Whatever you do, do it with passion; learn new things, set new standards. If you fall down, get up; ...
VIKRMN Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of ca...
ANDY SERKIS We showed a lot of poise, composure and character. I don't know if a lot of teams would have come ba...
KIRK KAUL Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on ...
BARRY COLLIER Is death truly the end or is it a stage, a continuation, a passing over, a new beginning, or a metam...
ANTHONY MIZZI I hated leaving, ... But the desk job wasn't exciting enough for me. It had come to a head where I n...
DENISE ROBERTS That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then y...
WILLIAM JAMES If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you...
WILLIAM JAMES It was just a slow, slow paced game. We were down 20-14 there and came back and tied it up at the en...
BILL BUTTERWORTH If you knew enough Greek, she thought, you could assemble a word that meant divination via the patte...
WILLIAM GIBSON I like to be aggressive on the bases. But if you don't have speed you have to adapt. In minor league...
DAVE HUPPERT If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on...
WAYNE DYER We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.
DAVID SELBY Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT ...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much da...
BETTY FRIEDAN Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should beco...
SHANE CLAIBORNE If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd u...
CARMEN ELECTRA No one else has ever meant what you do to me. Please, just … just, come back with me and stay. For...
KYLIE SCOTT Speed Up...

- Has never been the right decision.

SLow Up

- ANd spee...
DEYTH BANGER On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, str...
RON RASH A long summer always meant a long winter to come.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It’s pretty hard to get to another star system. Alpha Centauri is four light years away, so if you...
ELON MUSK If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior...
A. J. LIEBLING When you see a guy go down like that, it's a big blow. It really shows the character of this team to...
PETR SYKORA We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt
CHINESE PROVERBS They will chuck the threes and come at you.
LONNIE TVRDY Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get an...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The road's a safe road. It's a straight stretch of road, ... We'd have fewer accidents if people wou...
DENIS MURPHY Wayne is back as long as he wants to be coach. I don't know if he's coming back for just one year, o...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. without access to true chaos, we'...
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