Great Chuck quote - help needed
hey ye all out there,
I am looking for an excellent Chuck quote , can someone help me?
It goes something like
' more and more I am turning into a bad copy ( or was it re-run?) of myself'
Its from one of his books , might be Survivor, but not sure.
Many thanks from Kazakhstan,
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Oh, and I havent figured out to watch this post so if you answer, would you mind sending me a line that you have replied or send the reply directly to me. I hope I am not asking for too much.
Thanks again,
hey, i met a group of people from kazakhstan the other day. they seemed really nice, though i could really only talk with one. there was some language barrier thing or other.
so, youre a salinger fan, huh? nice. welcome to the cult.
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Peeeerfect! Thats it! And with the correct source as well. I bow. Deeply. Much appreciated. Thanks a million. I hate when I cant rmbr quotations exactly.
And I used to have a Tshirt with yr Hunter S T quote. Its an excellent one.
OK, many many thanks. U made a rainy shitty day bright!
Best,
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I am looking for a quote too! It was something like "Nobody cares about books, that's why you can do the most terrible things there" or so. Does somebody know this? I don't think it was in one of his novels.
" On the page you can do things that are impossible in the world, because the world is so regulated and structured anymore. On the page you can make those mistakes and have those adventures. I just get a little worried that I'll stop having those adventures in the world. And I won't even bother with the physical world because the fake world is so much nicer, so much more satisfying."
this is the only thing i could think of but its not from a book. its from an interview.
I think what you are looking for is from The "Guts" Effect An afterword (or warning) of sorts by Chuck at the end of the later printing Anchor Books edition of Haunted.
"A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce to risk reaching only a a limited audience. Only one person. But a book...a book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume-something that gives the reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it is difficult to call them "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades."
Maybe that helps...
Thank you! That sounds right, but I'm confused now.
I found the quote I was searching in German. It is:
"Bücher werden von niemandem beachtet. Darum sind Bücher der ideale Ort, um die wirklich ungeheuerlichen Sachen zu veranstalten."
The first part indeed seems to be in "The Guts Effect", but the second sentence is nowhere to be found. Weird.
"More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself" is the quotation (from Choke) you're looking for, I believe.
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.