Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
“Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk book Damned
Source: Damned (2011)
Context: If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby
Source: Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey
“Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.”
Variant: It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Source: Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 1
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
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.
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
“It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Source: Invisible Monsters
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