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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The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God’s most selfish children would steal God’s greatest gift, Hi...

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You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.

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What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

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If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel. And if you never have ...

Chuck Palahniuk

..statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

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She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live ...

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The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

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The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

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Dorian, I have wings!” “I can see that.” “What am I?” I asked, as chills ran up my spine. “I—I can’t be positive, because I have never seen one. But I think you’re a phoenix,” he said in amazement. “You are so beautiful.

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Rachel hadn’t invented the dangers of toxoplasmosis; she’d gone online and built an airtight case. This wasn’t crazy talk. Neurobiologists had linked T. gondii to suicide and the onset of schizophrenia. All caused by exposure to cat poop. Some ...

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According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

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In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

Chuck Palahniuk

Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people.

Chuck Palahniuk

For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now bo...

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It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.

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The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

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The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

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My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories.

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We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior.

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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