Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 29

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. (Chuck Palahniuk)
I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. View quote
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. View quote
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. View quote
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. View quote
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I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around. View quote
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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. View quote
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You realize you have no control over how you're perceived. View quote
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A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine. View quote
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Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy. View quote
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The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. (Chuck Palahniuk)
These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics." View quote
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I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore. View quote
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. View quote
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It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words. View quote
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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. View quote
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No matter what happens, it's always now. View quote
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Watching white moon faceThe stars never feel angerBlah, Blah, Blah, the end. View quote
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The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a though. View quote
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Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't. View quote
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Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people arenÆt. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being. (Chuck Palahniuk)
I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel's face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That's the rule. If it's your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful. View quote
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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. View quote
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You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train. View quote
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Theres always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story. View quote
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