Nothing of me is original. I am the... - Chuck Palahniuk - Quotes.Pub

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

There’s no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Fate Quotes

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there’s something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

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.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters – these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I’m never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn’t my invention.

I am Joe’s Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

I’m always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway’s gray marble floor looks as if we’ve climbed a stairway through the clouds.

They’re just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

I remember selling my first short story and thinking, Oh my god, I sold something for fifty dollars! That gives me the authority to say I’m a writer and to actually write more things! It legitimized the activity.

Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I’ll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. – Brandy Alexander.

Real Quotes

Someone bent on suicide won’t have much sense of humor left.

That’s what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can’t know I’m its mother. It’s so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that’s what I love about fire.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn’t occasionally go too far, you weren’t going anywhere.

My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.

Stories Quotes

The cancer I don’t have is everywhere now.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she’s still able to recover.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn’t glitter and shine.

Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany’s and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.

The girl traced the outline of her lover’s shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place.

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