Quote

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
Contentious
Lifetime
Politics
American
Ever
World

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
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.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
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 through a lot of acts of profanity.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We're the culture that cried wolf.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You can say anything if enough people will listen.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
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.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The things you used to own, now they own you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
Chuck Palahniuk