Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

About Chuck Palahniuk:

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction.
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, an...

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By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

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Art never comes from happiness.

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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.

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Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a t...

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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

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More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

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The lucky ones are just born dead.

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That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our attention. Jacking off. Denial.

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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

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Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

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Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

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Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

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they all think men are obsolete. useless. as if we're just some sexual appendix.

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It sounds as if you'd like to be God.

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My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.

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Author Bio

  • NameChuck Palahniuk
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist, essayist
  • BornFebruary 21, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Journalist; Essayist
  • WorksFight Club; Choke; Rant