“Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“... But someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“this isn't so much romance as it is opportunity [victor mancini]” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Amber saw getting infected as the ultimate commitment. Like her and the guy would be doomed to be with each other. Looking… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“It's just such a big commitment," Brandy says, "being a girl, you know. Forever." Taking the hormones. For the rest of her… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be… — 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
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
“You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.” — 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
“The wild daisies and Indian paintbrush whizzing past are just the genitals of a different life form” — 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
“[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation. — 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
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
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“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
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
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
“Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Every unkind remark or crude gesture by others is a blessing, an opportunity to exercise our own capacity to forgive.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share
“Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share