Chuck Palahniuk Quotes - Page 34

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• Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

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  Intelligent, Needs, Next

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• A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs

  Interview with Tom Spanbauer, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

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  Suicide, Missing, Stories

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• Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

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  Training, Shapes, Might

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

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  Life, Giving, Narrators

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• People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

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  Writing, People, Giving

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• The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

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  Real, Real Life, Ever After

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

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• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

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  Giving Up, Hate, Television Commercials

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

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• Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

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  Roots, Blue, Paper

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• A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.

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  Couple, Aspirin, Drink

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

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  Perfect, Imagine, Choke

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

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• Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

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  Baby, Stupid, Kids

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• And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

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  Fighting, Night, Clubs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.50, Random House

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• Now is the autumn of our ennui.

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  Autumn, Ennui

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.76, Random House

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• Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

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  Economy, Fats, National Economy

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.62, Random House

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• Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

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  Mouths, Please, Chainsaw

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.165, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

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  Funeral, Abstract, Ceremony

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

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• Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

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  Chaos, True Peace

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• I figure if Eve could get us into this mess, I could get us out. After all, God really likes to see a go-getter.

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  Likes, Figures, Mess

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• Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

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  Writing, People, Fax

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• We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

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  Believe, Animal, Ideas

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• A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

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  Reflection, Shadow, Illusion

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Haunted”, p.47, Random House

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• Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

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  Giving, Romance, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

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  People, Stranger

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• What would Tyler Durden do?

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