Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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“Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart.”

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

“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“the world is the cradle and your trap.”

“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.”

“There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.”

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

“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.”

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

“Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.”

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

“Believe in me and die forever.”

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

“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.”

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

“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.”

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

“I would pay snakes to bite her.”

“Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?”

“Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.”

“Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.”

“Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”