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Authors
Chuck Palahniuk
American
Novelist
About the author
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Want
#People
#Problems
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Love
#People
#Risk
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Forget
#Women
#Funny
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Truth
#Reality
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Work
#Home
#Fact
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Effort
#Perfection
#Worth
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#People
#Being
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Care
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#God
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Eating
#Happiness
#Garden
Every woman is just a different kind of problem.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Woman
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Smiles
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Character
#Death
#Change
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Want
#End
I just don't want to die without a few scars.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Want
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
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.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Truth
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Want
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Time
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Education
#Facts
What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Past
#Present
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Trying
#Mistake
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Day
You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Choice
You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Life
#Ending
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#End
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Being
#Promise
#Future
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Goal
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Being
#Risk
#Open
#Happiness
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Difference
#Press
#Suicide
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
The answer is there is no answer.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Saying
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#People
#Death
#Wonder
#Change
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Power
#Spirit
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Job
#Skill
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#God
#Pet
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#Love
#Blood
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk,
American
Novelist
#War
#Spiritual
#Depression