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Chuck Palahniuk

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Charles Michael Palahniuk (; PAW-lə-nick; Ukrainian pronunciation: [pɐlɐɦˈnʲuk], born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist who describes his work as transgressive fiction. He has published 19 novels, three nonfiction books, two graphic novels, and two adult coloring books, as well as several short stories. His first published novel, Fight Club, was adapted into a film of the same title.

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Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… would you slow down? Or speed up?

—Chuck Palahniuk in Invisible Monsters

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

—Chuck Palahniuk

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

—Chuck Palahniuk

How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance penciled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Postmodern Era, then the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.

—Chuck Palahniuk

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

—Chuck Palahniuk

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

—Chuck Palahniuk

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

—Chuck Palahniuk

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

—Chuck Palahniuk

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

—Chuck Palahniuk

Hysteria is only possible with an audience.

—Chuck Palahniuk

The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

—Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

—Chuck Palahniuk

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

—Chuck Palahniuk

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

—Chuck Palahniuk

The things you own end up owning you.

—Chuck Palahniuk

Books

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