Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist

1962-02-21

Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

• If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.

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• If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

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• It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos.What it's going to be, I don't know.Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.And maybe knowing isn't the point.Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

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• We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

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• If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

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• The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term depopulate means?

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• Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

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• Picture time travel as nothing more than knocking your half-read book to the floor and losing your place. You pick up the book and open the pages to a scene too early or late, but never exactly where you'd been reading.

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• They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I'm the one who lost.

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• Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It's an addiction to break.

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• Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

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• No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

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• No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

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• Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

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• Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

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• I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it's about getting off.

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• I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a hot-gushing, butt-cramping, gut hosing orgasm.

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• She says, Do you have any rubbers? I say, I thought she was barren. Sure, I'm sterile, she says, but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease. I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt. So we have sex. If you could call it that.

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• It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.

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• Sex pretty much cures everything.

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