History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself, in every points” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Throughout history the most powerful rulers have been sex maniacs. And he asks, does their sex appetite come from having power, or… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Looming visage noble American colonel. Courageous, renown of history, Colonel Sanders, image forever accompanied odor of sacrificial meat. Eternal flame offering wind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“if history remembered him as an idiot, well, he was only one among billions of people. History could spare one man. All… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“What Tyler says about the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I felt. I wanted to destroy something beautiful I'd… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We wanted to blast the world free of history… picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes on the fifteenth green of a… — 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 Image
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 Image
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Image