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Story Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
- Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.
- There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
- The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.
- Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
- You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
- I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
- I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,…
- When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words,…
- People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their…
- A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
- We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
- Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.
- An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the…
- Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they…
- When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
- That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But…
- The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.
- Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.
- Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.
- What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to…
- This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might…
- A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine.
- The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
- My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
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