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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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Chuck Palahniuk

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself do...

Chuck Palahniuk

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

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You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.

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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.

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Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

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There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We...

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He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

Chuck Palahniuk

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

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Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

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Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

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trichloroethane [...] All my extensive testing has shown this to be the best treatment for a dangerous excess of human knowledge

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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

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You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

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We just had a near-life experience!

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... the first step to eternal live is you have to die.

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Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

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First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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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