Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

#1. Give me release.
I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy.
Give me deliverance.
From what only looks like generosity. What only looks like love.
Flash. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#2. She's so thin she's either dying or rich. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#3. The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#4. I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#5. That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#7. The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#8. About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#9. Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Folks like poor Misty Marie, they're limited, borderline dummies, but nothing enough to get a handicapped parking space. Or get any kind of Special Olympic Games. They just pay the bulk of taxes but get no special menu at the steak house. No oversized bathroom stall. No special seat at the front of the bus. No political lobby. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#12. Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A theory. A
marketing campaign. A political strategy. A religious doctrine. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#13. If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your own. Sex is the act that separates us from our parents. Children from adults. It's by having sex that adolescents first rebel.
And if you never have sex, you never grow beyond everything else your parents taught you. If you never break the rule against sex, you won't break any other rule. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#14. We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#15. You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working class of slaves. Peons to haul the garbage so the upper crust can campaign and vote. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#16. What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#17. Fight club exists only in the hours between when fight club starts and when fight club ends. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#18. The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#19. Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#20. Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#21. People really need somebody they feel superior to. So stay downtrodden. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#22. She's seen it, pictured it, dreamed of it. She's wanted it so bad. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#23. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#24. Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#25. Getting inside a character might seem like a vacation from being you . But face it , you're never not you . No matter what world you create you're always dealing with your own shit . Same shit , different mask . You've chosen to explore a certain character because something about it resonates with you . Don't pretend for a moment that writing as a different person is evading reality . If anything it allows you a greater freedom to explore parts of yourself you wouldn't dare consciously examine . #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#26. She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#27. Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#28. So why do you want to die so bad? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#29. The closest thing that comes to how the day felt is when you wipe back to front. You're on the toilet. You're not thinking, and you smear shit on the back of your hanging-down wrinkled ball skin. The more you try to wipe it clean, the skin stretches and the mess keeps getting bigger. The thin layer of shit spreads into the hair and down your thighs. That's how a day like this, how it feels to keep secret. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#30. It's a Cinderella story, only at midnight she turns back into a fugitive. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#31. I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#32. The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#33. How could you ever bring yourself to love so deeply if you truly knew how brief a lifetime could be? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#34. Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#35. From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk
Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports ... At this point I am an authority on menstruation. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#36. The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#37. Home was a condominium on the fifteenth floor of a high-rise, a sort of filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#38. We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact, #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#39. Remember this," Tyler said. "The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. "We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#40. I am nothing, and not even that. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#41. In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we're meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn't suffering, it was erosion.It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#42. Parenthood is the opiate of the masses. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#43. Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#44. All I want is somebody to ask me what happened. Then, I'll get on with my life. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#45. Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#46. More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#47. The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you'd be ruined. Overdosed on information. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#48. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#49. Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or does their will for power come from their sex appetite? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#50. When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#51. Even after you're dead it hurts just as bad when your heart swells up, stretched bigger and bigger like an aneurysm of tears getting ready to boom. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#52. I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?"
Why did I cause so much pain?
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love?
I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong.
We are not special.
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.
And God says, "No, that's not right."
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#53. My goal is never to make fun of religion. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#54. Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#55. I told him to buy land, my mum says, they're not making it anymore. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#56. Every last minute of my life has been preordained and I'm sick and tired of it.
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: the Italian Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages.
...
The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and the tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#57. I know this because Tyler knows this. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#58. Life in These United States. Laughter Is the Best Medicine. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#59. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#60. What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#61. Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home ... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#62. Help me give up my addiction to Hope. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#63. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#64. Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#65. The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#66. I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#67. When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#68. The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#69. It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#70. There's a famous quote regarding Polanski. Perhaps Jack Nicholson said it, perhaps someone else, but it goes, "Polanski is the five-foot Pole I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole." So, yes, the world seems to despise him. I, however, love his work. It's so much funnier and well-constructed than the pompous stuff of Kubrick. Polanski balances between camp and horror in much the same way Billy Wilder did. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#71. To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#72. Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let ... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#73. All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#74. I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#75. I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#76. 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#77. Santa Claus is just a story," says Seth. "He's just the opening band to God. There is no Santa Claus. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#78. What if reality is nothing but some disease? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#79. Jump back twenty years to the white house where I grew up with my father shooting super-8 movies of my brother and me running around the yard. Jump to present time with my folks sitting on lawn chairs at night, and watching these same super-8 movies projected on the white side of the same white house, twenty years later. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#80. Above all, don't lie to yourself." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"I don't want to die without any scars." – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." – André Gide, Autumn Leaves

"If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something." – Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." – Paulo Coelho, Brida

"If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
– Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do." – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all." – John Green, Paper Towns

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer." – Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

"Fear is an illusion..." - Dark Templar, Starcraft 2 #Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#81. She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#82. If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#83. No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#84. Imagine, the task force guy says, telling a passenger on arrival that a dildo kept her baggage on the East Coast. Sometimes it's even a man. It's airline policy not to imply ownership in the event of a dildo. Use the indefinite article. A dildo. Never your dildo. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#85. The way she looks right now, you have to think about multiple car pile-ups. Imagine two bloodmobiles colliding head on. The way she looks, you'd have to think of mass graves to even log thirty seconds in the saddle.
Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs.
That's how beautiful she looks. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#86. The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#87. Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#88. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#89. I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#90. The ice-cold way death can hit you in the noontime of a sunny day just when you'd never expect. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#91. In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#92. As if she ought to know better than to scream and bleed in public. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#93. I don't want to die without a few scars.. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#94. Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#95. Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club Med on the moon, roast beef served in a toothpaste tube. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#96. Here's one night when I control the chaos. I participate with the doom I can't control. I'm dancing with the inevitable, and I survive ... My regular little dress rehearsal ... the day I finally meet Death, the two of us will be old, long-lost friends. Me and Death, separated at birth. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#97. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#98. Silence.
Give me control. Give me calm. Give me restraint.
Flash. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#99. Because the rubber, too, is bulletproof. And so relentless is the wind that it rakes the street, pushing along this burden of crippled vermin, trundling this tide of suffering always in the wake of the Town Car as it reaches Spaulding Square. Fissures of lightning #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#100. I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#101. Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#102. For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#103. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#104. Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#105. It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner parties. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#106. A salacious lie will always trump a noble truth. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#107. What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#108. You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#109. Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#110. This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#111. Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our aloneness that matters. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#112. The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free.
Survivor #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#113. I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#114. Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#115. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#116. For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#117. Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#118. This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#119. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#120. The girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#121. Your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#122. The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner - the very last panel - so as you turn the page, the payoff is in the upper lefthand panel. To pace every story so that there's a setup and a payoff at the page turn was a huge challenge; it's a part of the medium and you really have to learn what can be done in the medium. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#123. There are a lot of good reasons to live, I tell her, and hope she won't ask for a list. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#124. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#125. I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#126. Sure, I want to look like I'm worth the ef­fort. Washed but not ironed. Clean but not pol­ished. Con­fi­dent but hum­ble. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#127. After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#128. For instance, if Jesus Christ had died in prison, with no one watching and with no one there to mourn or torture him, would we be saved?
With all due respect.
According to the agent, the biggest factor that makes you a saint is the amount of press coverage you get. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#129. No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#130. In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#131. We're all such products #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#132. The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#133. It is okay to cry, as long as you fake it. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#134. Love and life belongs to great risk. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#135. Funerals are all abstract ceremony. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#136. The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#137. You gain power by pretending to be weak. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#138. You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you're changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you'll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you'll be dead. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#139. I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#140. I spend most of my life just listening to people. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#141. My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#142. The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term "depopulate" means? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#143. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#144. Now is the autumn of our ennui. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#145. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#146. A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy fo a role you're planning to leave.You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret, you want future critics to say you played the character better. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#147. It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#148. In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#149. From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#150. Without true chaos, we can never have true peace. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#151. Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what's inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you'd die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you're thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they're doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#152. So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want ... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#153. Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#154. We love our pain. We love our drama. But we will never, ever admit that. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#155. It's not that I want to get mar­ried. I ad­mire guys who can com­mit to a tat­too. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#156. The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person.
That ... that is proof of your deathless soul. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#157. With the elevator stopped between floors, my view is about a cockroach above the green linoleum, and from here at cockroach level the green corridor stretches toward the vanishing point, past half-open doors where titans and their gigantic wives drink barrels of champagne and bellow to each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#158. Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#159. You never know the complicated deals two people negotiate in order to stay married beyond the first ten minutes. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#160. I don't want to die without any scars. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#161. Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#162. We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#163. A woman eats to feed her pussy. Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#164. You probably don't want to date a rapist, not right off. Nobody's that desperate. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#165. This is better than real life. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#166. Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#167. Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#168. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#169. Or, I could just sit in the bushes and pump the hand pump
until the plumbing was superpressurized to 110 psi. This way, when
someone goes to flush a toilet, the toilet tank will explode. At 150 psi, if
someone turns on the shower, the water pressure will blow off the shower
head, strip the threads, blam, the shower head turns into a mortar shell.
Tyler only says this to make me feel better. The truth is I like my boss.
Besides, I'm enlightened now. You know, only Buddha-style behavior. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#170. 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. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#171. People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#172. The truth is, being ugly isn't the thrill you'd think, but it can be an oportunity for something better than I ever imagined.
The truth is I'm sorry. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#173. With my eyes closed, I ask if she knows how this will all turn out.
"Long-term or short-term?" she asks.
Both.
"Long-term," she says, "we're all going to die. Then our bodies will rot. No surprise there. Short-term, we're going to live happily ever after."
Really?
"Really," she says. "So don't sweat it. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#174. In the movie where somebody is invisible all the sudden - you know, a nuclear radiation fluke or a mad scientist recipe - and you think, what would I do if I was invisible...? Like go into the guy's locker room at Gold's Gym or, better yet, the Oakland Raiders' locker room. Stuff like that. Scope things out. Go to Tiffany's and shoplift diamond tiaras and stuff. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#175. Between wiener juice and lung blood, I'd say that chambray shirt was a goner. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#176. If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can't you wake up as a different person? Every #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#177. Human beings don't cultivate ideas. On the contrary…Ideas cultivate us. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#178. I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#179. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#180. Somewhere en route to Port Via in the New Hebrides, for my last meal I serve dinner the way I've always dreamed.
Anybody caught buttering their bread before breaking it, I promise to shoot them.
Anybody who drinks their beverage with food still in their mouth will also be shot.
Anybody caught spooning toward themself will be shot.
Anybody caught without a napkin in their lap-
Anybody caught using their fingers to move their food-
Anybody who begins eating before everybody is seved-
Anybody who blows on food to cool it-
Anybody who talks with food in their mouth-
Anybody who drinks white wine holding their glass by the bowl or drinks red wine holding their glass by the stem-
You will each of you get a bullet in the head.
We are 30,000 feet above earth, going 455 miles per hour. We're at a pinnacle of human achievement, we are going to eat this meal as civilized human beings. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#181. With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#182. This makeover would make piercings and tattoos and brandings look so lame, all those little fashion revolts so safe that they themselves only become fashionable. Those little paper tiger attempts to reject looking good that only end up reinforcing it. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#183. Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#184. It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#185. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot? #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#186. I embrace my own festering diseased corruption, #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#187. I'm not so much a good friend as I am the saviour who wants you to worship him forever. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#188. That old saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways. And it does work both ways. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#189. Writing an honest blog is how you unlive your life. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#190. By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#191. If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#192. You're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#193. Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope ... but darkness wins. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#194. The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#195. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#196. Artificial over-stimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available. Whether the victims were men or women, arousal addiction seemed to have become the new normal. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#197. Here at St. Anthony's, they have to close the curtains before it gets dark, since if a resident sees themself reflected in a window they'll think somebody's peeping in at them. It's called "sun-downing." When all the old folks get crazy at sunset. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#198. When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#199. Or maybe ... just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#200. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love. #Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

#201. If you look at pictures of the bodies of Muhammad Ali, Ray Robinson, or, for that matter, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, you'll see physique in perfect proportion and built for function. #Quote by Tom Schreck

#202. Look at the list of liberals who are active in politics, if not running. Barbra Streisand, Sean Penn, Warren Beatty, Springsteen, Spielberg ... And then you look at the conservatives, it's like Chuck Norris, Bo Derek and the Gatlin Brothers. I don't know if being liberal makes you more right, but it does seem like it makes you more talented. #Quote by Bill Maher

#203. To me, fear of the future means fear of technology. I have a little bit of that. I still use it, but I kind of see technology as this harmful thing that's so ingrained in my life that it sort of dictates and controls my relationship with it. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#204. shelter and uphill. I wasn't ready for that. Left at 8:30 this morning and pulled in at 3:30. I wish I had a hiking companion. It was nice hiking with Mary. I suspect I'll be at this site alone, after spending last night with over twenty people. Other than the pack weight, the weather makes one the biggest of the #Quote by Chuck Aldridge

#205. I found a sound that people really liked - I found this basic concept and all I did was change the lyrics and the melody a little bit. My songs, if you listen to them, they're quite a lot alike, like Chuck Berry. #Quote by Buck Owens

#206. I've had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase," ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told Rolling Stone. "I found him completely dishonest and totally likable, because he doesn't care. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#207. Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball. #Quote by Chuck Dressen

#208. I love making art ... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art. #Quote by Chuck Close

#209. I tend to equate sadness with intelligence. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#210. Axl Rose is the ear-cutting scene from Reservoir Dogs in human form. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#211. The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#212. Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another #Quote by Chuck Todd

#213. Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver. #Quote by Chuck Pfarrer

#214. If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline. #Quote by Chuck D

#215. Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power. #Quote by Chuck Hagel

#216. Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear. #Quote by Chuck Kruger

#217. As long as the Palestinians send terrorists onto school buses and to nightclubs to blow up people, Israel has no choice but to build the fence. #Quote by Chuck Schumer

#218. Foreign policy will require a strategic agility that, whenever possible, gets ahead of problems, strengthens U.S. security and alliances, and promotes American interests and credibility. #Quote by Chuck Hagel

#219. People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white. #Quote by Chuck D

#220. I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :) #Quote by Chuck Bridges

#221. The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be. #Quote by Chuck Schuldiner

#222. Sure we all enjoy movies, books and TV shows that portray people putting principles ahead PFB personal gain. But it might be time to admit that in the real world, grandiose patriotism has always been a mask to hide banal self-interest. #Quote by Chuck Lorre

#223. People whine, 'I haven't succeeded because I haven't had the breaks.' You create your own breaks. #Quote by Chuck Norris

#224. And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#225. I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas. #Quote by Chuck Cannon

#226. I do some broadcasting and speaking as well. #Quote by Chuck Daly

#227. The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this." #Quote by Chuck D

#228. Dengar guffaws. "You little scrap-muncher. I was putting away bounties while you were still in your space diapers." "What's it say about you that you're still in your space diapers? #Quote by Chuck Wendig

#229. You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?' #Quote by Chuck Jones

#230. I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship. #Quote by Chuck Feeney

#231. Because our world is not the same as Othello's world. You can't make flivvers without steel-and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma. Which you go and chuck out of the window in the name of liberty, Mr. Savage. Liberty!" He laughed. "Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello! My good boy! #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#232. The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#233. Well we never set out to write a concept album. I've always used song writing as a therapeutic release so in that process, I just do my best to be honest with myself and look inside myself and whatever comes out usually just reflects or depicts what I'm going through in my life at that time. #Quote by Chuck Ragan

#234. Thanks to all the moving around Mom and I had done, I hadn't had a birthday party since I was eight years old. That had been at Chuck E. Cheese. Something told me the Council had something more elaborate in mind.
"They don't need to do that," I said, shoving my hands into my pockets. "Especially with all that's going on right now."
Nick flashed me a wolfish grin. "That's Prodigium for you. Very 'fiddle while Rome burns. #Quote by Rachel Hawkins

#235. One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor. #Quote by Chuck D

#236. There is no alternative universe where Ralph Sampson is a beloved symbol of excellence. There's no Philip K. Dick novel where he averages a career double-double and gets four rings. He could never be that guy. He was needed elsewhere, for other reasons. He was needed to remind people that their own self-imposed mediocrity is better than choking on transcendence. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#237. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool. #Quote by Chuck Klosterman

#238. The first breach was in My Garden, and because you were willing to stand in the coldness that that breach had caused from last season, I now am producing blessings in your midst. Now the next breach is linked with the provision that needs to be unlocked. Therefore, all God-robbing spirits will be broken. #Quote by Chuck Pierce

#239. I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. #Quote by Chuck Close

#240. If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures. In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the Seed and the Seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms! #Quote by Chuck Pierce

#241. Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do. #Quote by Chuck Schumer

#242. Minds are the real estate of the 21st century. #Quote by Chuck D

#243. Creative agitation can serve you well. Embrace it. Look into that dark hole for answers, not fear. #Quote by Chuck Wendig