Chuck Palahniuk

Notable Quotes



We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

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In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

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In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.

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With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to make an ongoing effort to consume this product and that the project is being consumed by just one person at a time. I really want to play to that strength because it's one of the few advantages books still have.

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My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

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