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
strong mean ideas
I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.
depression spiritual war
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
erosion rocks people
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
friendship i-like-you thinking
It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.
makeup skins cosmetics
She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
ignorance differences mind
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
judging people littles
We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
feel-better games useless
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
opportunity men feet
When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.
perspective perception looks
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
crazy stupid people
The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
practice surfing television
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
mean acceptance superstitions
What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
together stories gathering
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.