Chuck Palahniuk Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fake People, Gun, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

• Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Depression, Spiritual, War

  "Bruise Control". www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2000.

• Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Truth, Real

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feel Better, Games, Useless

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

• If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Literature, Want

• I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Addiction, Literature

• You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  One Day, Literature, Realizing

• The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perspective, Perception, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.21, Random House

• People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Being Alone, People, Together

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

• If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Different, Wake Up, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

• The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Reality, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House

• People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drama, People, Scary

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Future, Promise, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

• The answer is there is no answer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Answers, Literature

• More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Literature, Feels

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

• Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Coping Mechanisms, Giving, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

• Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Literature, Sometimes, Human Nature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

• It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Funny, Thinking, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

• Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Owning A Pet, Adorable, Literature

• The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Differences, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

• I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Long, Literature

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