# Quote — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction

> All my friends with PalmPilots and cell phones, they're always calling themselves and leaving reminders to themselves about what's about to happen. We leave Post-it notes for ourselves. We go to that shop in the mall, the one where they engrave whatever shit you want on a silver-plated box or a fountain pen, and we get a reminder for every special event that life goes by too fast for us to remember. We buy those picture frames where you record a message on a sound chip. We videotape everything! Oh, and now there's those digital cameras, so we can all email around our photos — this century's equivalent of the boring vacation slide show. We organize and reorganize. We record and archive.

- Author: [Chuck Palahniuk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk.md)
- Book: [Stranger Than Fiction](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/stranger-than-fiction.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Stranger_Than_Fiction:_True_Stories_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/stranger-than-fiction/all-my-friends

## More from this book

> The journalist researches a story. The novelist imagines it.
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> What’s funny is, you’d be amazed at the amount of time a novelist has to spend with people in order to create this single lonely voice. This seemingly isolated world.
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> It’s hard to call any of my novels “fiction.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/stranger-than-fiction/the-journalist-researches.md)

> If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.
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> In a way, that is the opposite of the American Dream: to get so rich you can rise above the rabble, all those people on the freeway or, worse, the bus.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/stranger-than-fiction/if-you-havent.md)

> Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/stranger-than-fiction/everything-is-funnier.md)