Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“That’s pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's a television show, 'Hoarders,' where people have those homes filled with stuff. Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will… — 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.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap.… — 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
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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.… — 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
I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your… — 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
