Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise… — 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
There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below… — 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
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cults make people sing so hard for so long - because it over-oxygenates the blood and sets them up to faint. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge. — 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
