You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. — 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
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of… — 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
As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and… — 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
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live?… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to… — 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
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith… — 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
