I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
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Chuck Palahniuk
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About Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael Palahniuk is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel, Fight Club, was adapted into a film of the same title.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Chuck PalahniukIt'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.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
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 …
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with tho…
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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but throu…
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 l…
I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment …
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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 l…
I have a lot of money.
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in tw…
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around t…
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
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 …
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.