“If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trash can, then we'll figure out who you're going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can’t you wake… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise… — 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
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I hate how on TV they have to fill so many minutes. It means they have to put in anything, and by… — 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
“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
My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You melt and swell at that moment. For that moment, nothing matters. Look up at the stars and you're gone. Not your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think. None of us ever considered what life would… — 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
“This whole time, I was calm. I was the picture of calm. I never, never panicked. I saw my blood and snot… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a… — 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
So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?” — 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
