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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 problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Source: Phoenix

“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked…”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Asfixia

“I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“the world is the cradle and your trap.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.”

Chuck Palahniuk Snuff

Source: Snuff

“If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned (2011)

“The photographer in my head says:
Give me peace.
Flash.
Give me release.
Flash.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Asfixia

“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 19, Hot Potting, A story by Baroness Frostbite

Chuck Palahniuk quote: “History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”

“History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived… and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Believe in me and die forever.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Variant: The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
Source: Rant

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Source: Invisible Monsters

“You'll need to suffer to make any real art.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“I would pay snakes to bite her.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”

Chuck Palahniuk

Interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian (2002-10-30)

“After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

“You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Variant: People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.
Source: Diary

“Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

Chuck Palahniuk