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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Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

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I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

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If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

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I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

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Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

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If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

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We kind of deny the stages of life.

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Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

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I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.

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So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

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I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

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That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

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I think America is just so in love with conflict.

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I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

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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