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
water way quitting
Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives.
people watches world
There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
pain mean wings
Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.
girl religious growing-up
The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.
people lifetime born
Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
honest life-is ifs
My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
hysteria audience
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
hands lines littles
Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.
kissing want lips
Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, 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
missing missing-it
This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it
hate persons
The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.
pigs males born
A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
jobs skills life-is
My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
real fight-club-book fight-club-novel
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.