Adjustment Day Quotes

“Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“A happy past cripples people. They cling to it with nowhere better to go. Nothing to improve upon.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Flattery is addictive. Convince others they are special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people's self worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Time legitimizes the outrageous.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“After a lifetime of posting on blogs and videotaping his every move and emotion for social media, he was facing nothing less than identity fatigue.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“For hate is a form of passionate attachment, and to be despised seems better than to be unknown.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Imagine there is no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the government rots.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“No man has to be a rocket surgeon to recognize love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“The democracy of capitalism guaranteed that only the most banal men, the men with the most moderate intellect and most readily appealing looks and talents, would rise to notoriety. And these would only be a handful from among the millions.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“The author, John Steinbeck, had been a pussy, too afraid to make anything happen. He’d abandoned his characters to suffer. As had God.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Suicide Is the Ultimate Act of Consumption.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“No man is an adult while his parents are alive. Until they die he is merely a performance to either please or punish them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Imagine there’s no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son, and the world you leave for them.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“That is why an expiring form of money is crucial. Power passed from generation to generation in the abstract form of wealth leads to privilege and corruption. Money must not be hoarded for its own sake but must be continually employed for a fruitful purpose.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“If humor comes from anything, it arises from an immense feeling of relief.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Making others right redeems their paltry and pointless educations. Making others right makes them love you,”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“History would always repeat this pattern: Queer foot soldiers blazing the path and being dismissed once the heavy lifting was complete.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“You never feel as alive as when you make somebody else dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“the greatest proof of love’s power is that it couldn’t be reduced to words.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Telling the truth wasn’t sufficient power. As consolation the remaining journalists convinced themselves that no absolute truths existed. This new untruth they propagated as the new truth. The entertainment value, the ability to titillate or provoke, came to be the litmus test of any new truth.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Liberation has enslaved them!”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Flattery is addictive. Convince others they’re special. Assure them they have talent. Make yourself the source of people’s self-worth. Doing so binds them to you and it preempts them from developing their skills and proving their true potential.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“It amounted to a pornography of being right. No orgasm would be as satisfying as proving everyone else wrong.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“The weakest people alive will try to glorify themselves by tearing down the truly amazing strength of the dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“To call this a social experiment was incorrect. It would never be allowed to fail.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“On Northeast Mississippi Avenue”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day

“Northeast Mississippi Avenue”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day