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
matter walks stills
No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.
philosophy tragedy life-is
Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
hair shopping worship-you
Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and hangnails, as a regular person. You have to be everything regular people aren’t. Where they fail, you have to go all the way. Be what people are too afraid to be. Become whom they admire. People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. When it comes to choosing a savior, they won't settle for just a human being.
strong people gains
You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
change running acceptance
The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
believe heart save-me
We opened our hearts. Hear me, heal me, save me, believe me.
might littles victim
I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.
jobs crazy cancer
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.
toxic-waste gods-creation waste
I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
pain war hate
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
believe america people
The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.
movie fighting 80s-and-90s
The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.
animal choke magnolias
The only thing that separates us from the animals...is we have pornography.
smart independent men
I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.