Quote

Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

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
Make
Age
Impression
Things
Lasts
Necessarily
Last
Changing
Change
Biggest
Best
Aren
Thing
Taste
Every
Loved
Really
Worst
Tastes

More quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

Image
More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
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
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A good story should change the way you see the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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
Image
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
Chuck Palahniuk