55 Book Club Quotes
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Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives." — Chuck Palahniuk
The things you own end up owning you. — Brad Pitt
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. — Chuck Palahniuk
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. — Chuck Palahniuk
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? — Chuck Palahniuk
Self improvement is masturbation. — Chuck Palahniuk
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. — Chuck Palahniuk
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. — Chuck Palahniuk
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
More Book Club Quotes
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave. — Chuck Palahniuk
What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine? — Jami Attenberg
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. — Phylicia Rashad
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it. — Erma Bombeck
"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives." — Chuck Palahniuk
This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he’s just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They’ll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far. — Jeremy Robert Johnson
The things you own end up owning you. — Brad Pitt
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. — Chuck Palahniuk
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. — Chuck Palahniuk
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? — Chuck Palahniuk
Self improvement is masturbation. — Chuck Palahniuk
Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It's amazing. — Alan Robert
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. — Chuck Palahniuk
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. — Chuck Palahniuk
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
It was a Friday night, she was at a club, and a good-looking man was currently giving her the I-want-to-take-you-home-and-I-hope-I-last-longer-than-five-minutes look… and she was thinking about pie, a young adult book, and feeding her cat. She was so turning into the cat lady at twenty-seven. Sweet. — J. Lynn
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk
Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club. — Melvin Belli
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say." — Oprah Winfrey
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. — Chuck Palahniuk
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. — Chuck Palahniuk
Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world. — Cathy Marie Buchanan
The first step to eternal life is you have to die. — Chuck Palahniuk
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. — Chuck Palahniuk
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. — Chuck Palahniuk
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel. — Irvine Welsh
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations. — Vladimir Nabokov
Books + friendship = book club — Kristin Hannah
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. — Chuck Palahniuk
It's great that there are so many different kinds of books for kids and adults to choose from. I think an eclectic reader is the best kind of reader to be, which would be why I was always so satisfied to hear that kids read the Baby-Sitters Club books and then went on and discovered other authors and other genres. — Ann M. Martin
When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. — Lyle Lovett
[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens. — James Nicoll
I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can’t you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club? — Nicky Wire
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction. — Brad Pitt
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. — Chuck Palahniuk
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. — Chuck Palahniuk
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't. — Chuck Palahniuk
Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. — Chuck Palahniuk
For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone. — Chuck Palahniuk
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors. — John Mortimer
It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process. — Jodi Picoult
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways. — Nick Hornby
If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together. — Pat Garrett
We toured the U.S. and Canada for two years, which was a lot of fun. It was very much a do-it-yourself, punk-rock ethic of booking your own shows, sometimes sleeping on the floor of the club you had played or meeting folks that would take you in, or sleeping on the side of the road or at rest stops in the car. — Beto O'Rourke
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