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Chuck Palahniuk

(1962) Novelist United States

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Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them, a theme Palahniuk repeats as characters chase endless escape and avoid facing themselves. He mixes bizarre sensations, like a strange taste, with moments of fierce joy, and shows how people try to outrun the sunrise while fearing what lies ahead.

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Chuck Palahniuk is a Novelist from the United States, best known for Fight Club.

Quick Facts About Chuck Palahniuk

Born: February 21, 1962
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Fight Club, Survivor, Choke, Rant, Damned
Known for: Transgressional fiction

About Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael 'Chuck' Palahniuk, born on February 21, 1962, writes what he calls transgressional fiction. He has published nineteen novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, two adult coloring books and many short stories. His first novel Fight Club became a bestseller and was turned into a movie. Other well‑known titles include Survivor, Choke, Rant and Damned.

Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“I just didn’t want to be fixed.”

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Writing gave me the world.

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Our real discoveries come from chaos,

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Chaos

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“She's being such an overreaction.”

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Overreaction

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you can make mean anything.

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“You had a near life experience.”

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Experience

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Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

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Denial

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“Wait- there was a book?”

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Book

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“Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?”

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They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

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Communication

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“Parents, they'll screw you up every time.”

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Child

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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

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All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

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Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

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My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

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Honest

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My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

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As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

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If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you…

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I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

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Addiction

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“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. "It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, "that you’re free to do anything.”

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“...but my mom's going to hate being hated. she's a skinny beautiful lady with perfect hair; she's just not equipped to deal…

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“Here are condoms lined with a topical anesthetic for prolonged action. What a paradox. You don't feel a thing, but you can…

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Beauty

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“Valley of the Dogs. Where even if they don't kill you, if someone loves you enough to take you home, they still…

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“Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street,” he claims, “are doomed before…

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“At home, I’m too scared to look in the fridge. Picture dozens of little plastic sandwich bags labeled with cities like Las…

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The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count…

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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks…

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Addiction

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“Wallace Boyer (Car Salesman): Sell cars long enough and you'll see: Nobody's all that original. Any lone weirdo comes from a big…

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Car salesman

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“You've never seen a crucifix with a Jesus who wasn't almost naked. You've never seen a fat Jesus. Or a Jesus with…

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Body hair

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It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart…

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Choice

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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That…

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A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls…

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Algebra

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“This isn't about love and hate," Helen says. It's about control. People don't sit down and read a poem to kill their…

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Children

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Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male…

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Anxiety

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The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of…

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Alternate realities

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“Your dad was in a street gang?" My adopted dad was an accountant for a big Fortune 500 corporation. Him, me, and…

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Dad

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“Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated…

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Cultural diversity

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“Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight. Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.…

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Death

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“You’re a product of our language”, Brandy says, “and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every…

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