The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. — 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
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you… — 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
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would… — 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
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save… — 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
