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Chuck Palahniuk

(1962) Novelist United States

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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.

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I don't want to die without any scars.

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Death

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Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

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Bullshit

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“El oxígeno te coloca.”

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Amor

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“Tyler never knew his father.”

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Father

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Love and life belongs to great risk.

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Great risk

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“I am Joe's smirking revenge.”

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Revenge

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“Cyanide is natural. So is arsenic.”

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Arsenic

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the world is the cradle and your trap.

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It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.

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Cry

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You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.

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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

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“It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't love.”

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“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.”

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Sticks and stones

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“Certi nascono umani. Altri ci mettono una vita a diventarlo.”

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Amor

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“Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?”

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Christianity

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“Madison Desert Flower Rosa Parks Coyote Trickster Spencer,”

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Flower

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Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel.

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“Tienes que saber, no temer, saber que algún día vas a morir, y hasta que no entiendas eso, eres inútil.”

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Amor

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“Here was our future of cheese-food and aerosol propellants, Styrofoam and Club Med on the moon, roast beef served in a toothpaste…

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He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

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It's all the mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a…

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Beauty

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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.

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I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of…

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Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all…

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Barbie

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People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She…

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Beautiful

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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,…

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Books

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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise…

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Disaster

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“Still, the better she could draw, the worse her life got--until nothing in her real world was good enough. It got until…

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“The door to my boss's office is always closed now, and we haven't traded more than two words any day since he…

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Boss

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People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one…

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Dramatic

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“The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I…

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“With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would…

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I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things…

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As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a…

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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and…

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Drama

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“How Tyler saw it was that getting God's attention for being bad was better than getting no attention at all. Maybe God's…

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Children

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“I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he…

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Art

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My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is…

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“By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are…

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Children

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“It’s worth noting up front that I have always conceived of my mind as a digestive organ. A stomach for processing knowledge,…

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Human brain

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Chuck Palahniuk by topic

Life (212) People (179) Time (168) Love (93) Writing (83) World (81) Books (71) Writer (65) Stories (63) Death (61) Thinking (47) Parenting (46) Truth (40) Book (39) Giving (34) Children (34)