Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 5

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• Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

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  Book, Ideas, Issues

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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  All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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  Life, Optimistic, Bored

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

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  Age, Remember

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

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  People, Silence, Needs

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

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  Revenge, Long, Details

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• There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas.

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  Drama, Character, Mean

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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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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  Love, Thinking, Blood

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.15, Random House

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• It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

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  Needs, Choke, Pathetic

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

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  Becoming, Invisible Monsters, Becoming God

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.264, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

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  Emotional, Choices, Vulnerable

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

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  Past, People, Events

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.117, Random House

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• I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

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  People, Bored, Want

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

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  Cells, Years, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.342, Random House

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• Everyone holds a certain type of power. For young people, it's their youth, their attractiveness, and their energy. But they're terrified that as those qualities fade, what are they going to replace that form of power with?

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  People, Quality, Energy

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

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  Night, Vegas, Heaven

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk

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  Smart, Stupid, Needs

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• Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

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  Past, Escaping, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

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  Animal, Holocaust, Survivor

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• Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

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  Running, Money, Angel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

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  Art, School, Life Is

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

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  Fear, Law, Boredom

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

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  Mind, Stories, Resentment

  "Novelist Chuck Palahniuk". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 28, 2010.

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• Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

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  Spring, Ideas, Drunk

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, www.sfgate.com. 2008.

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• Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

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  Giving Up, Addiction, Helping

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

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  Beautiful, Cat, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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