Chuck Palahniuk: Want
Chuck Palahniuk is American novelist, essayist. Explore interesting quotes on want.
Variant: I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.'
A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Source: Invisible Monsters
“If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.”
Source: Invisible Monsters
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline
“Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.”
Source: Survivor
“History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 39
“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
Source: Burnt Tongues
“The truth is… you think what people want you to think.”
Source: Haunted