Top 100 Quotes About Chuck Palahniuk

#1. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser.

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#2. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

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#3. I love and adore all of my family, except when I'm with them.

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#4. The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

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#5. Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

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#6. Having nothing to lose is the new wealth.

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#7. Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.

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#8. It's amazing what a woman will read into it if you by accident say, I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this.

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#9. Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

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#10. No memory is anything more than a personal choice.

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#11. My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest of my life.

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#12. I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

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#13. There is no human soul, and I am absolutely for sure seriously not going to fucking cry.

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#14. Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go

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#15. If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.

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#16. When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.

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#17. Believe in me and die forever.

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#18. Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

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#19. The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic ... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

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#20. The nouvelle cuisine of anarchy. Barium nitrate in a sauce of sulfur and garnished with charcoal. That's your basic gunpowder. Bon appetit.

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#21. The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

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#22. Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

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#23. In the sky overhead, it's the same sun watching us make the same mistakes over and over. It's the same blue sky..

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

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#25. Because I can't hit bottom, I can't be saved.

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#26. Give me attention.
Flash.
Give me adoration.
Flash.
Give me a break.
Flash

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#27. Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

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#28. This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

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#29. Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.

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#30. You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

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#31. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

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#32. How she looks is watered-down.
How she looks is disappearing.
How she looks is erased.
"Don't stress", she says. "This is just me not wearing any makeup.

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#33. The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

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#34. Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the world. And I think that those basic choices make the world a better place.

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#35. I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

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#36. This would be ... a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

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#37. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

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#38. In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

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#39. I asked Tyler what he'd been fighting.
Tyler said, his father.
Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves.

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#40. Every family has its scriptures, but most can't articulate them

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#41. Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

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#42. At home, you'll sometimes wake up in your dark bed with the terror you've fallen asleep in the booth and missed a changeover.

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#43. I am Joe's smirking revenge.

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#44. Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

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#45. Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.

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#46. Every direction I could see to go was just a different nightmare.

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#47. I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

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#48. A blush only reminds me how blood is just under the surface of everything.

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#49. Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.

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#50. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

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#51. We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

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#52. It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

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#53. So if you think this is going to save you ... If you think anything is going to save you ... Please consider this your final warning.

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#54. No medium is fragile if it carries the truth.

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#55. Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

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#56. Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

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#57. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

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#58. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

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#59. I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

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#60. I was eleven years old with menarche barreling down on me like a speeding bloodmobile.

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#61. I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

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#62. Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

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

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#64. Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

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#65. If you asked my dad about selecting any kind of professional career, he'd tell you, "Don't make a date with a heart attack." Meaning: You've got to pace yourself and not forget to slow down. No job is forever. So relax and have some fun.

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#66. I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

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#67. College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink

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#68. The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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#69. Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

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#70. Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

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#71. Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying.

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#72. I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.

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#73. Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

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#74. I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived ... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

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#75. 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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#76. We're the culture that cried wolf.

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#77. Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

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#78. The girl in 8G has no faith in herself," Marla shouts, "and she's worried that as she grows older, she'll have fewer and fewer options.

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#79. Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.'

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#80. I am helpless.
I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things.
My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage."
This is how bad your life can get.

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#81. As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

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#82. Ah, Houellebecq. I've only read him in English translations so I'm sure I'm not getting the full greatness of his work, but golly, he writes better sex scenes than anyone else alive.

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#83. Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

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#84. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ.

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#85. One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest of the children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand.
The Deliverance.

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#86. So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

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#87. What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.

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#88. It helps to know you're not any more responsible for how you look than a car is. You're a product just as much. A product of a product of a product.

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#89. A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

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#90. In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

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#91. We kind of deny the stages of life.

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#92. The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road.

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#93. A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection

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#94. Worker bees can leave.
Even drones can fly away.
The Queen is their slave.

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#95. That's the big letdown you'll notice about filming a movie: No underline music. No mood music.

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#96. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

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#97. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

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#98. Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.

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#99. Right now, me getting killed would be redundant.
...
You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
...
Right now, getting killed would be a breath of spring.

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#100. Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

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