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
growing-up parent proof
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
children lying exercise
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.
adventure horror-stories true-life
We’d turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we’d survive to talk about.
pain war nice
Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That’s the earth. Why it goes around. We’re the rocks. And what happens to us—the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse—why, that’s just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.
thinking people want
The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.
needs stories our-lives
Pretty much always. We need to tell the story of our life to someone.
jobs children old-job
You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
years expectations choices
With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.
crazy fall shadow
Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.
mirrors differences people
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.
husband kids home
In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.
happened happenings
Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.
dream american-dream sells
That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
want just-love-me want-me
Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.