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 don't want to die without any scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

Chuck Palahniuk

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

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Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.

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If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

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We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

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Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only...

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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

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Everything is still falling apart.

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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

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You had a near life experience.

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If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.

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Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

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And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

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This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

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The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

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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