You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
