Top 25 Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk of 953 - Page 35

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

Chuck Palahniuk

Believe In Yourself, Opposites, Rebel

"Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Chuck Palahniuk

Economy, Fats, National Economy

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.62, Random House

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

Chuck Palahniuk

Boys, Two, Giving

"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

Chuck Palahniuk

Museums, Burning, Letters

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.29, Random House

We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

Chuck Palahniuk

Believe, Animal, Ideas

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Night, Clubs

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.50, Random House

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

Energy, Exhausting

Chuck Palahniuk (2013). “Doomed”, p.141, Random House

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

Chuck Palahniuk

Children, Lying, Exercise

"Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Want, Just Love Me, You Want Me

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Bruises, Okay

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

Mistake, Stupid, Pepsi

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Character, Writing, Hands

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Chuck Palahniuk

Giving Up, Useless, Realizing

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Adventure, Horror Stories, True Life

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

Chuck Palahniuk

Want, Whole Life, Whole

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

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

Chuck Palahniuk

Beautiful, Couple, You Are Beautiful

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Revenge, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.

Chuck Palahniuk

Littles, Might, Victim

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.246, Random House

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

Chuck Palahniuk

Differences, Ends, Know How

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

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Chuck Palahniuk

Culture, Cried

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.94, Random House

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

Chuck Palahniuk

Movie, Fighting, 80s And 90s

"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

Chuck Palahniuk

Stupid, Coffee, Dirty

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

People, Stories, Ghost

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.342, Random House

Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

Chuck Palahniuk

Perfect

Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books