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Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his

Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.

Chuck Palahniuk
Eye, Yesterday, People
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

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 past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

Chuck Palahniuk
Drama, Moving, Past

At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.

Chuck Palahniuk
Mustache, Risk, Stripes

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 be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Chuck Palahniuk
Song, Two, Hair
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.107, W. W. Norton & Company

A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Sibling, Believe
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.63, Random House

That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Chuck Palahniuk
Life, Sarcastic, Dream
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.52, Random House

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

Chuck Palahniuk
Silence, Noise, Golden

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Chuck Palahniuk
Birthday, Years, Bully

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk
Dark, Despair, Pits
"Interview: Chuck Palahniuk on 'Choke'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. September 24.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club Novel, Knows
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Chuck Palahniuk
Expectations, Listening, Trying

We kind of deny the stages of life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Kind, Deny, Stage
"Damned if You Do: Chuck Palahniuk on His New Novel". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 19, 2011.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Chuck Palahniuk
Book, People
"Fright club" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2005.

We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There's microwaved watermelons. There's the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There's vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Sex, Years
"Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

Chuck Palahniuk
Bed, Rifles, Living Alone
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.125, Random House

With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.

Chuck Palahniuk
Years, Expectations, Choices
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.139, Random House

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs
Interview with Tom Spanbauer, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Chuck Palahniuk
Angel, Hands, Long
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Chuck Palahniuk
Running, Filling Up, Half
Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Shoes, Two
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Children, Old Job
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.138, Random House

Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

Chuck Palahniuk
Crazy, Fall, Shadow

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

Chuck Palahniuk
Husband, Home, Kids

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

Chuck Palahniuk
Pain, War, Nice
"Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2005.

Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.

Chuck Palahniuk
Truth, Past, Stories
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.208, Random House

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