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Chuck Palahniuk

Birthdate: 21. February 1962
Other names: Чак Поланик

Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a popular film of the same name. Wikipedia

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Works

Fight Club

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Invisible Monsters

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Choke

Chuck Palahniuk

Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted

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Diary

Chuck Palahniuk

Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

Rant

Chuck Palahniuk

Damned

Chuck Palahniuk

Snuff

Chuck Palahniuk

Tell-All

Chuck Palahniuk

Doomed

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Guts

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Pygmy

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Quotes Chuck Palahniuk

„People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party… As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the Stairway. The trouble is, even the French don't have a phrase for the stupid things you actually do say under pressure. Those stupid, desperate things you actually think or do.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter One, Guts

Perfection, Thinking, Stupidity, People

„We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 20, Cassandra, Another story by Mrs. Clarke
Source: Invisible Monsters

Love

„Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Haunted

Haunted (2005)

Smile

„It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Choke

Source: Choke

Feeling

„Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

Dance, Singing, Business

„We'll never be as young as we are tonight.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Rant

Source: Rant

„Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

Fight

„Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Haunted

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Variant: Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 11, Ritual

„I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, book Invisible Monsters

Variant: I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Source: Invisible Monsters

Life