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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No, we love war. War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment. “It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.” We have alway...

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To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

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Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

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As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen

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She says, "I'll swear by the rose tattooed on my ass, that old man raped me." Here, the funeral parade stops. At this point, Comrade Snarky is a victim among victims. The rest of us — just her supporting cast. Mrs. Clark, leading us, she looks back...

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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

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Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I...

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Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

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You digest and absorb your life by turning it into stories,' he says, 'the same way this theater seems to digest people.' With one hand, he points to a carpet stain, this dark stain sticky and growing mold, branched with arms and legs. Other events�...

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Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.

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The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

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Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

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You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.

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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Chuck Palahniuk

Author Bio

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