Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
barbie-dolls car would-be
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.
spring ideas drunk
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.
monsters victim witness
History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.
jobs skills valuable
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
dream smart ambition
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
forever investment proof
Proof that no investment is yours forever.
growing-up stupid phases
Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
goal long remember
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
differences ends knows
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
fight-club-novel knows
I know this because Tyler knows this.
rooms firsts owners
At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
bother ifs
If you're going to read this, don't bother.
jobs gun mouths
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
becoming-one becoming stories
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.