People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The thing about Valiums . . . is they don't kill the pain but at least you're not pissed off about being hurt.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can… — 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