Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

"History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse."
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"History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse."
Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby
"...it was Marla's collagen trust fund. Whenenver her mom grew any extra fat, she had it sucked out and packaged. Marla says the process is called gleaning. If Marla's mom doesn't need the collagen herself, she sends the packets to Marla. Marla never has any fat of her own, and her mom figures that familial collagen would be better than Marla ever having to use the cheap cow kind."
Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club
"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."
Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
"The future is just wasted on some people."
Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
"The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday."
Chuck Palahniuk Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."
Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."
Chuck Palahniuk Survivor
"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Why do I do anything' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream."
Chuck Palahniuk Choke
"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."
Chuck Palahniuk
"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 Invisible Monsters
"There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables."
Chuck Palahniuk Survivor
"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."
Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters
"The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish."
Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby
"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?"
Chuck Palahniuk
"My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?"
Chuck Palahniuk
"The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone."
Chuck Palahniuk
"When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place."
Chuck Palahniuk
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