Pygmy Quotes

“For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“If you won't share my life with me, maybe you'll share my death.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Pygmy

“Well, honey, what Mrs. Pike liked was the pygmies. They’ve got these pygmies down there, too, an’ Mrs. Pike was just wild about ’em. You know, the teeniniest men in the universe? Well, honey, they can just rest back on their little bohunkus an’ roll around an’ you can’t hardly tell if they’re sittin’ or standin’. That’ll give you some idea. They’re about forty-two years old. Just suppose it was your husband!'

("Petrified Man")”
― Eudora Welty, The Collected Stories