Thinking Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

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I think America is just so in love with conflict.

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Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

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It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.

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Some people still think knowledge is power.

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It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.

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Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

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This isn’t really death,’ Tyler says. ‘We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old.’ I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say,…

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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise…

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So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final…

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You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember…

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As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

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I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

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Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

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What we think of as Halloween is really the product of media barons, city mayors, and candy-makers. You know, before the 1920s,…

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I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found…

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Ultimately, everyone is acting out of what they feel is the best choice. In a way, they're all trying to improve the…

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“If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that,…

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I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And…

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I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the…

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Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we…

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You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing…

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

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Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel.…

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

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Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that…

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There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In…

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I think that young people are less attached to items and objects now. They're less attached to consuming things and accruing things…

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Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The…

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The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

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I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is…

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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not…

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Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you…

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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts…

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When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

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I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really…

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This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any…

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