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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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city wit...

Chuck Palahniuk

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

Chuck Palahniuk

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Chuck Palahniuk

Listen, nitwit, what good will it do you to know whether I am "sincere" or "insincere"? What does this have to do with whether or not my thoughts are right? I can utter a soaring truth "insincerely" and say the stupidest thing "sincerely". Learn to j...

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Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces...where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play...

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Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in a book, you will certainly find them because it was said: seek and ye shall find. But a critic should not rifle, search. Let him sit b...

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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.

Chuck Palahniuk

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

Chuck Palahniuk

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Chuck Palahniuk

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Chuck Palahniuk

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

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Believe in me and you shall die, forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.

Chuck Palahniuk

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

Chuck Palahniuk

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

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Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

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Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight. Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys. Death will commence in five. Five, four. Around her, a parasitic life spray paints her heart. Four, three. Three...

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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