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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For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

Chuck Palahniuk

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

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She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time. The Mommy said this sa...

Chuck Palahniuk

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.

Chuck Palahniuk

My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sex pretty much cures everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.

Chuck Palahniuk

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

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It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registe...

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To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

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Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

Chuck Palahniuk

...,dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Chuck Palahniuk

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

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You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then ki...

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All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man's god is another man's devil. As each subsequent civilization became a dominant power, among its first acts was to depose and demonize whoever the pre...

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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