Children Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in…

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“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

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For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose . . . watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

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If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

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“We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's…

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You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

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You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

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One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their…

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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible…

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“We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we’ll be millionaires and movie stars and rock…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative…

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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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A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“All these people who say they want a life free from sexual compulsion, I mean forget it. I mean, what could ever…

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You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill…

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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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“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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As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below…

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“If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler…

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Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.…

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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…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Each holiday tradition acts as an exercise in cognitive development, a greater challenge for the child. Despite the fact most parents don't…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most…

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“One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march…

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We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey…

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Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with…

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Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I just didn’t want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn’t want them cured. None of the little…

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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting…

— Chuck Palahniuk