Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
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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  

✵ 21. February 1962  •  Other names Чак Поланик
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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“The joke is, we all have the same punchline.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction

“It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Salon.com Letters http://www.salon.com/books/letters/2003/08/26/chuck/index.html. Response by Palahniuk to Laura Miller's review. (2003-08-26)

“Sex pretty much cures everything.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“You can’t fool people into loving you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“If you're going to read this, don't bother.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: 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.

“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Burnt Tongues

“Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“The future is just wasted on some people.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters