Parenting Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

“Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Parents, they'll screw you up every time.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Tyler never knew his father.”

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“As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“I asked Tyler what he'd been fighting. Tyler said, his father. Maybe we didn't need a father to complete ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

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You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

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What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My father worked for the railroad, and whenever a train crashed, we would go as a family and steal food from the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television…

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My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too…

— Chuck Palahniuk

And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss…

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“The mechanic says, "If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It's one thing for my parents to behave all secular humanist and gamble with their own eternal souls; however it's altogether not…

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In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That…

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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac…

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“This is fish number six hundred and forty-one in a lifetime of goldfish. My parents bought me the first one to teach…

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“If you never have sex you never gain a sense of power. You never gain a voice or an identity of your…

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“Jump back twenty years to the white house where I grew up with my father shooting super-8 movies of my brother and…

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“My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance…

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“Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“My mom says, "Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?" Jump to how much I hate my brother…

— Chuck Palahniuk

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

— Chuck Palahniuk

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

— Chuck Palahniuk

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know…

— Chuck Palahniuk