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We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
What if reality is nothing but some disease?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Music is crucial. Beyond no way can I overstress this fact. Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising alone in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you--do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, closeout, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
A cash-bought merit badge ain't worth shit.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Love is a skill you learn.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
No matter what happens, it’s always now.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
Chuck Palahniuk
Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Whatever the blessing, the talent, or technology, we can still find some way to fuck it up.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each of those three traditions asks a child to believe in the impossible in exchange for a reward. These are stepped-up tests to build a child's faith and imagination. The first test is to believe in a magical person, with toys as the reward. The second test is to trust in a magical animal, with candy as the reward. The last test is the most difficult, with the most abstract reward: To believe, trust in a flying fairy that will leave money. From a man to an animal to a fairy. From toys to candy to money. Thus, interestingly enough, transferring the magic of faith and trust from sparkling fairy-dom to clumsy, tarnished coins. From gossamer wings to nickels... dimes... and quarters. In this way, a child is stepped up to greater feats of imagination and faith as he or she matures. Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Rant goes, "Really, truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?" I go, doesn't Rant mean "love"? And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
I stepped into the back of a cab and simply told the driver, "Follow the blue Christmas tree...
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't recognize this function, they still practice the exercise. Rant also saw how resolving the illusions is crucial to how the child uses any new skills. A child who is never coached with Santa Claus may never develop an ability to imagine. To him, nothing exists except the literal and tangible. A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder. But a child who relinquishes the illusions of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy, that child may come away with the most important skill set. That child may recognize the strength of his own imagination and faith. He will embrace the ability to create his own reality. That child becomes his own authority. He determines the nature of his world. His own vision. And by doing so, by the power of his example, he determines the reality of the other two types: those who can't imagine, and those who can't trust.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Buster was Rant was Buddy. Chester was Chet was Dad. Irene was Mom was Reen. How folks lay claim to their loved ones is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
It doesn't matter for crap that you've got three years of sobriety or that you finally look good in a two-piece bathing suit or you've met that perfect someone and you've fallen deeply, wildly, passionately in love. Today, as you pick up your dry cleaning, fax those reports, fold your laundry, or wash the dinner dishes, something you'd never expect is already stalking you.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Every family is a regular little cult.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
La historia no es más que una sucesión de monstruos o de víctimas. O de testigos.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive....My regular little dress rehearsal...the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
the disinhibition caused by said brain damage, can also spur the infected individual to seek the pleasure of compulsive, casual sexual activity
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking back, she figured a brush with death would make her really enjoy her life. Like she would feel more alive.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
You get everybody telling the same lie and it ain't a lie, not no more.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Si tal vez no necesitáramos de un personaje mítico y salvaje para representar nuestras vidas en proceso de desaparición.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Por mucha bendición que haya, o talento, o tecnología, siempre podemos encontrar la forma de cagarla
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Hay gente que nace humana. Al resto nos cuesta toda la vida conseguirlo.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
We all live by different clocks and calendars.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
At some point, Wax mentioned how appalling it seemed that those brilliant minds who could invent miracle medicines and nuclear fission and dazzling computer special effects, they had such a complete lack of imagination when it came to spending their money: granite countertops and luxury cars. Talking about that stuff, Wax driving, the madder he got, you could watch the speedo creep up past eighty, ninety, a hundred.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you’d been reading.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Despite my lifetime of declining rich desserts, my evenings spent jogging, regardless of all my careful moderation and self-discipline—I’m trapped, wadded inside a shell of steel and aluminum. My body, violated in countless places by fragments of broken glass. My low-cholesterol blood rushes to abandon me in hot, leaping spurts. Despite all my care, the heart-attack victim and I will both be just as dead.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
there’s worse ways to be dead than dying.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Every family has its scriptures, but most can't articulate them
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Cada uno es su hobby favorito. Uno siempre es experto en uno mismo.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
La repetición es la madre de todos los talentos.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
En un mundo donde millones de personas creen que su deidad concibió un hijo mortal con una humana virgen, es asombrosa la poca imaginación que muestra la mayoría de la gente.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
The big reason why folks leave a small town,” Rant used to say, “is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn’t talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you’d never notice.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Music is crucial... Let's say you're southbound on the interstate, cruising along in the middle lane, listening to AM radio. Up alongside comes a tractor trailer of logs or concrete pipe, a tie-down strap breaks, and the load dumps on top of your little sheetmetal ride. Crushed under a world of concrete, you're sandwiched like so much meat salad between layers of steel and glass. In that last, fast flutter of your eyelids, you looking down that long tunnel toward the bright God Light and your dead grandma walking up to hug you - do you want to be hearing another radio commercial for a mega, clearance, close-out, blow-out liquidation car-stereo sale?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Echo Lawrence(Party Crasher): If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favourite saying was 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.' Shot Dunyun(Party Crasher): That's bullshit. Rant's favourite saying was 'Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Certi nascono umani. Altri ci mettono una vita a diventarlo.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant : An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Bazı insanlar insanoğlu olarak doğar.Gerş kalanımız ise insan olabilmek için hayatımız boyunca uğraşırız.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
La forma que tiene la gente de reclamar para sí a un ser querido es ponerle un nombre que solo hacen servir ellas. Ponerle una etiqueta para apropiárselo.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Rant Casey on DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic: " . . . What if reality is nothing but some disease?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
It's funny, what you remember about a person".
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Love is a skill you learn. Like house-training a dog. Maybe a talent you do or do not build up. Like a muscle. And if you can't learn yourself to love blood family, than you'll never truly love. Not nobody.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big nest of weirdos. What's weird is, you go to some pigsty village in Slovakia, and suddenly even Andy Warhol makes perfect sense.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
«Il motivo principale per cui la gente se ne va dai paesini di provincia» diceva sempre Rant, «è perché così poi può sognare di tornarci. E il motivo per cui ci resta è per sognare di andarsene». Con questo Rant voleva dire che nessuno è felice, da nessuna parte
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Rant Casey no era malvado. Más bien parecía que estuviera intentando encontrar algo real en el mundo. Hoy día los niños no crecen conectados a nada, se pasan el tiempo enchufados y viviendo vidas que otra gente ha alucinado para ellos. Aventuras de segunda mano. Creo que Rant quería que todo el mundo experimentara por lo menos una aventura de verdad. En tanto que comunidad, algo que uniera a la gente.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
El consenso más importante de la sociedad moderna es la organización del tránsito. La manera como puede interrelacionarse una marea de desconocidos que comparten un mismo camino y viajan casi todos sin incidentes. Con un conductor disidente hay suficiente para crear anarquía.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Ti rivelo un piccolo segreto da donne: il motivo per cui una ragazza al primo appuntamento preferisce andare a cena, è perché così capisce com'è che lui la scoperà. Uno zoticone che si ingozza, senza mai soffermarsi su quello che mangia, be'... con uno così a letto non ci vai.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Shot Dunyun: No bullshit, but I never leave the house without a mix for anything: Falling in love. Witnessing a death. Disappointment. Impatience. Traffic. I carry a mix for any human condition. Anything really good or bad happens to me, and my way not to overreact—like, to distance my emotions—is to locate the exact perfect sound track for that moment. Even the night Rant died, my automatic first thought was: Philip Glass's Violin Concerto II, or Ravel's Piano Concerto in G Major?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Çarpıima partisi, depresyonunuzu elektroşokla tedavi etmek gibi değil midir?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
It’s fucking weird, hearing somebody’s died tomorrow. Like you could still call that commuter man, right now, in Moscow, and say: “Stay home!
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
There's worse ways to be dead than dying.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
If you lived long enough, couldn't you watch yourself be born? Couldn't you raise yourself? Be your own old man?.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
Neddy Nelson: Have you read that Kissinger report he's supposed to have submitted to the National Security Council in 1974? The one where Henry Kissinger warns that the greatest threat to the future of Americans is overpopulation in Third World countries? How's it go? We need the minerals and natural resources of Africa? Pretty quick now, those banana republics will fall apart as their populations rise too high? The only way America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means?
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)
It wasn't only the boosted experiences that bothered Rant. It was dipshit kids done up as soldiers and princesses and witches. Eating cake flavored with artificial vanilla. Celebrating a harvest that didn't occur anymore. Fruit punch that came from a factory. A ritual to placate ghosts, or whatever bullshit Halloween does, practiced by people who had no awareness of that. What bothered Rant was the fake, bullshit nature of everything.
Chuck Palahniuk
Here's a single girl's secret. The reason you eat dinner with a man on a first date is so you know how he's going to fuck you. A slob who gobbles down the meal, never looks at a bite, you know not to crawl into bed with that guy.
Chuck Palahniuk (Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey)