Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

I'm very good at forgetting people.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

This can't be true but I remember it.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream.

the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!