Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect of perfection” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Overrun with Goths wearing sandals and soaking lentils at home, the future I wanted is gone. The future I was promised. Everything… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“My one true love. My deformed or mutilated or diseased prince charming. My unhappily ever after. My hideous future. The monstrous rest… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to...'Nothing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — 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
Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“..."The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Brandy says, "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph… — 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
