“this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You do the job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything"... "Nothing was ever good enough," my mom… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I knew this would happen," Marla says. "You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Get out of here, and do your little life, but remember I’m watching you, Raymond Hessel, and I’d rather kill you than… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“So you're the winner of this game show," Seth says, "and you get a choice between a five-piece living room set from… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live?… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept… — chuck palahniuk Copy Share Image
A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“In all seriousness, Archer claims that if you, as a living, alive person, hear the song “You’re the One That I Want”… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It's a fate worse than death to spend eternity in harness, serving as Lilly Hellman's zombie, brought back to life at dinner… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Something or someone lived or died so you could have this life. The mountain of the dead. They left you into the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Stealing drugs, selling drugs, buying clothes, renting luxury cars, taking clothes back, ordering blender drinks, this isn't what I'd call Real Life,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“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 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
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