Quote

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

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
Anything
Enough
People
Listen

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Love and life belongs to great risk.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
With insomnia, you're never really awake but you're never really asleep.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
Chuck Palahniuk