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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

The more people die, the more things stay the same.

Lullaby (2002)

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

You can never say the wrong thing.

Haunted (2005)

If there's a trick to doing a job you hate... Mrs. Clark says it's to find a job you hate even more.

Haunted (2005)

If the living are haunted by the dead. Then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes."

Damned (2011)

What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

Damned (2011)

Her dress, swimsuit-tight, leotard-tight, her pantyhose run with women pedaling bicycles going nowhere at a thousand calories an hour.

Haunted (2005)

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics."

Lullaby (2002)

A book is as private and consensual as sex.

Haunted (2005)

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our minds. Our own reality.

Haunted (2005)

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

Haunted (2005)

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Haunted (2005)

As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'

Haunted (2005)

I lost my virginity through my ear.

Haunted (2005)

According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy.

Lullaby (2002)

"The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

Lullaby (2002)

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything.

In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

Damned (2011)

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.

Lullaby (2002)

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