Firsts Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

— Chuck Palahniuk

At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

— Chuck Palahniuk

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his…

— Chuck Palahniuk

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with…

— Chuck Palahniuk

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

— Chuck Palahniuk

What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I first started writing, there was no way I'd write a sex scene. That just seemed impossible. That's why in "Fight…

— Chuck Palahniuk