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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

“The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.
Source: Invisible Monsters

“Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'

Clawing at the roof of her coffin.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Which is worse: Hell or nothing?”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing…”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: Look up at the stars and you're gone.
Source: Fight Club

“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: This isn't about music. This is about winning.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Source: Fight Club
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.

“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra…”

Chuck Palahniuk

“We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: Everything is still falling apart.
Source: Fight Club

“You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“His computer password is "password.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Variant: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Source: Choke

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: I don't want to die without any scars.
Source: Fight Club

“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.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Tell-All

Source: Tell-All

“Art never comes from happiness.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
Source: Fight Club

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
Source: Invisible Monsters

“We're the culture that cried wolf.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby