126 Chuck Palahniuk Quotes for You to Enjoy

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Writing gave me the world. Chuck Palahniuk

Me Writing World Gave

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable. Chuck Palahniuk

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Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless. Chuck Palahniuk

Buy Music You People Writing Passion Clothes Live Painting Second-Hand Enough Bit Wealthy Seem Develop Cheap Particular Look Still Place Little Little Bit Your Less Even Homeless Portland

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. Chuck Palahniuk

You People Believe Other Accuse Being Then

Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die. Chuck Palahniuk

Life You Book Writing Better Church Down Bit About More Perfect Over Like Dead Always Doing Falling Trying Die Going Little Little Bit Then Your Thing

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves. Chuck Palahniuk

People Way Temporarily About Adopt Always Been Cultures Very Model Curious Fringe Where Different Social Themselves Presenting

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience. Chuck Palahniuk

Time You Thought Timing Our Our Time Out Telling Only Delivery Know Comedians Learn Because Audience Always Were Loud Oral Interacting Rhetoric Story Storytellers Things

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction. Chuck Palahniuk

First Meeting Laughed Kind Guts Writers Almost Fellow Reaction Read Been Years Shock Any Story Workshop

I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men. Chuck Palahniuk

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. Chuck Palahniuk

Just Crap Happens Either Special Trash

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

Sometimes Big Past Too Seems Hold Present

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