Chuck Palahniuk: Quotes about people

Chuck Palahniuk is American novelist, essayist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“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

“The future is just wasted on some people.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005)

“Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people……..”

Chuck Palahniuk book Pygmy

Source: Pygmy

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“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

“Some people still think knowledge is power.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby