Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.” — 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
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every decade, we get a stunning collection of dynamic, heartbreaking short stories. In the past, those collections came from Barry Hannah, Mark… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember… — 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
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — 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.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling… — 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
