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
“Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Overrun with Goths wearing sandals and soaking lentils at home, the future I wanted is gone. The future I was promised. Everything… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
As if we can ever imagine the past, future, life on other planets, everything is such an extension, such a projection of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I loathe the kind of game-show context in which so much of our lives is determined: proving my memory and mental skills… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Adulthood Begins the moment someone tells you, "You need to be more sensitive.” — 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
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
At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his… — 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
