People Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk · Page 2

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The future is just wasted on some people.

— Chuck Palahniuk

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

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Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It's kind of like trick-or-treating.

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Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

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Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

— Chuck Palahniuk

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes.…

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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences. That's part of my process - to go out and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

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I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

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On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

— Chuck Palahniuk