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
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
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. — 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
“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
“That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control… — 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
As if we can ever imagine the past, future, life on other planets, everything is such an extension, such a projection of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Give me a complete late-stage revision of my adult life. Flash. Give me anything in this whole fucking world that is exactly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Now, smile-if you still can. This is your zygomatic major muscle. Each contraction pulls your flesh apart the way tiebacks hold open… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You must be kidding." She says, "Having the power of life and death isn't enough. You must wonder what other poems are… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“All these stupid rocks," I say, "what’s your goal?" "This isn't about getting something done," Denny says. "It’s about the doing, you… — 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
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“To stand here and try to fix her life is just a big waste of time. People don’t want their lives fixed.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize… — 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
“One danger is, we might hurry through life, enduring event after event, in order to build our list of experiences. Our stock… — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
