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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

born 1962 United States

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk (born February 21, 1962) is an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist.

United States
Journalists
Novelists
Satirists

Also known as: Palahniuk, Chuck, Damned (novel), Snuff (novel)

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93 quotes

Here's Big Brother, singing and dancing, force-feeding you, so your mind never goes hungry enough to think.

Lullaby (2002)

History is is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Lullaby (2002)

Until you deal with your real personal issues, you'll never be able to control yourself.

Lullaby (2002)

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

Lullaby (2002)

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

Lullaby (2002)

Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job.

Lullaby (2002)

After long enough, everyone in the world will be your enemy.

Lullaby (2002)

With the angel of death going door to door, people stayed together. They quit bitching and behaved.

Haunted (2005)

For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.

Haunted (2005)

You can never set off to do the wrong thing.

Haunted (2005)

Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal.

Diary (2003)

In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take--what you do or say or how you choose to appear--is automatically right the moment you act.

Haunted (2005)

"You are permanent, but this life is not," Mr. Whittier would say. "You don't expect to visit an amusement park, then stay forever."

Haunted (2005)

In order to save the world, Jesus Christ suffered for about thirty-six hours on the cross. I am willing to suffer an eternity in hell for the same cause.

Lullaby (2002)

This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat.

Haunted (2005)

With every crime, Mona says, you're more and more alienated from the world. More and more, you imagine the whole world is against you.

Lullaby (2002)

"Every apostle or disciple," Mrs. Clarke says, "as much as they're running to follow their savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else."

Haunted (2005)

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

Lullaby (2002)

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.

Lullaby (2002)

You can't unfuck a kid. Once you fuck a kid, you can't get that genie back in the bottle.

Haunted (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chuck Palahniuk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.