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Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
Born: Feb 21, 1962
Life Me People Think Time You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it. Chuck Palahniuk
Love Home Relationship You Change Joy Job Responsibility Every Everything Find To Love Your Choose
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Chuck Palahniuk
Depression War Great Spiritual Generation Our Great Depression Our Generation Our Lives Had Great War Lives
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Chuck Palahniuk
You People Thought Legend Nothing Dream Unreal More Only Perfect Crumble Powerful Ideas Concepts Well Because Real Go Intangible Than Die Stone Wood Fantasies Beliefs Things Last Imagine Fragile
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed. Chuck Palahniuk
You Sometimes Something Get Screwed Things
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness True Happiness Way Find Risk Only Open True Being Cut
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone. Chuck Palahniuk
Alone Together People Telephone Hated Scared Because Were Close Being Being Alone Used
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. Chuck Palahniuk
You Eyes People Meet Meeting Constantly See No Idea Entirely Something Disappoint Idea Like Expected Different Them Moment Here
Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. Chuck Palahniuk
Communicate Feelings Living Too Others Those Unaware Because Makes Understood Any Artist Lack Afraid Skills Express Expressing
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. Chuck Palahniuk
Life Truth You Hide Down Addictions About Somehow Write Longer Going Wanted Breaks Your Choose Moment Whole
If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie. Chuck Palahniuk
Better Made Would Had Been Hit Movie Titanic Iceberg Much Zombies
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. Chuck Palahniuk
Behavior Insanity Eye Of The Beholder Say Eye Status Would Status Quo Fact Any Beholder In Fact Quo Might Actually Interpreted Enlightenment
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. Chuck Palahniuk
Life Family History People I Am My Life Those Drawn Easy Threatened Feel Terms Dead Protective Am Private Existing Friends Very Friends And Family Discuss Currently Where Curtain Who Now
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness Garden Boring Eating Eden Perpetual Get Did Maybe Justified Apple
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place. Chuck Palahniuk
Alone Time Me People Writing Job First Other I Can Hated Computer Part Most Place Public Apartment Laptop Sucked Now Away Started Tedious
To be honest, I hate silence. Chuck Palahniuk
Silence Hate To Be Honest Honest
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them. Chuck Palahniuk
God People Would Would-Be See Arguing Like Because Exist Them Century
'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. Chuck Palahniuk
Love Myself Me Creative Creative Process Stupid Fall Tell Introduce Entire Idea Obsess Over Over It Isolate Friends Romance Process Based Eventually
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk
Better Everything Ourselves Out Something Make Maybe Break
People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. Chuck Palahniuk
Time Me People Those Would See Give Write Tour Arms Tattooed Autograph Anymore Wanted Legs Decided Them Ask Then Bodies Next Next Time
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
Book Every Ghost Ghost Stories Recreate Always Heard Effect Trying Front Children Stories Us Engaged
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: 'Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.' That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers. Chuck Palahniuk
Teacher Me Man People Writing Party Say Struck Write Writers True Invited Nod Heads Because Always Got Were Hear His Used Who Workshop Tom Started
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. Chuck Palahniuk
You Just Be Our Circumstances Inspiration Reaction Around Motives Diary Motto Get Just Where Us Really Coaches Your Aware
I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger. Chuck Palahniuk
Heart Trend Men Think Alexander I Think Out Horrible David Lifetime Checked Always Odd Kurt Kurt Cobain Celebrity Wallace Goes Heath McQueen Who Foster Peak
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. Chuck Palahniuk
Suicide Press Only Martyrdom Only Difference Between Coverage Difference
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. Chuck Palahniuk
Life You Mistake Birth Spend Correct Trying Your Whole
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Chuck Palahniuk
God Must Boring Never Does Get Us Ever Watch
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