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Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Loving Life, People

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Believe, Imagination
"Rant". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Dying
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Book, Ghost Stories

Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, War, Cutting

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, People, Enthusiasm
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.101, Random House

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Father, Character
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

Chuck Palahniuk
Jobs, Children, Sunset
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.19, Random House

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Father, Character
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Nice, Book
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.19, Random House

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, War, Cancer

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Child Of God, Lunatic

Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

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

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

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

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Laughing, Silence

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.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Mistake, Smart
"Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, books.google.ru. May 31, 2011.

As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.

Chuck Palahniuk
Children, Writing, Ideas
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