“In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.”

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This reads as a complaint about how language has lost moral weight. It suggests that promises and pledges have become too easy to make and too easy to break, so words no longer carry the trust they should. It lands in a situation where someone is tired of empty assurances and wants speech to mean commitment again.

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About Chuck Palahniuk

American novelist

Chuck Palahniuk is an American novelist. He writes what he describes as transgressive fiction, and he has 476 quotes on the site. He has published 19 novels, along with three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, two adult coloring books, and several short stories. His first published novel, Fight Club, was later adapted into a film of the same title.

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Fight Club

1996

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Lullaby

2002

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