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

More quotes by 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
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
Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.
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
You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
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
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
Chuck Palahniuk
Image
The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
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
First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Chuck Palahniuk