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 just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

Chuck Palahniuk

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Chuck Palahniuk

The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver, it helps if you're double-jointed. Use your imagination. Some creativity and a few simple stretching exercises and you can be kn...

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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's ...

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they should let some people into the library by prescription only

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We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelings and sensitivity. Just made-up subjective emotional crap. There is no soul. There is no God. There's just decisions and disease and death.

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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Chuck Palahniuk

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

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It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended ...

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What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

Chuck Palahniuk

You can’t fool people into loving you.

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I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

Chuck Palahniuk

To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it....

Chuck Palahniuk

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Chuck Palahniuk

That's it, Uncle Huey!" Imogene Duckworthy whipped off her apron and flung it onto the slick, stainless steel counter. "I quit!" If only her voice didn’t sound so young.

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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

Chuck Palahniuk

You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.

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There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Chuck Palahniuk

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

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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