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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen Picture Quote #1

We don’t need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There’s microwaved watermelons. There’s the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There’s vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes Picture Quote #1

No, it’s not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset Picture Quote #1

In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn’t suffering. It’s erosion Picture Quote #1

If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper Picture Quote #1

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it’s what we’re programmed to love Picture Quote #1

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Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn’t to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it’s about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested Picture Quote #1

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink Picture Quote #1

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Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It’s kind of like trick-or-treating Picture Quote #1

The only biodiversity we’re going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We’re landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time Picture Quote #1

The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular Picture Quote #1

If you don’t believe what other people believe, then they’ll accuse you of being nihilistic Picture Quote #1

The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I’m shocked by the deeply personal things I’ve put into books without realizing it Picture Quote #1

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it’s good to add more emotion and chaos Picture Quote #1

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My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories Picture Quote #1

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes Picture Quote #1

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love Picture Quote #1

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people Picture Quote #1

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl Picture Quote #1

I don’t remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events Picture Quote #1

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We’re so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior Picture Quote #1

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom’ by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose Picture Quote #1

Without access to true chaos, we’ll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won’t get any better Picture Quote #1

What they don’t teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were Picture Quote #1

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can’t understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation’s clothes and hair suddenly retro Picture Quote #1

The bad news is we don’t have any control. The good news is we can’t make any mistakes Picture Quote #1

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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) We don’t need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting and take notes. There’s microwaved watermelons. There’s the vibrating handles of lawn mowers right at crotch level. There’s vacuum cleaners and beanbag chairs. Internet sites. All those old chat room sex hounds pretending to be sixteen-year-old girls. For serious, old FBI guys makes the sexiest cyberbabes (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) No, it’s not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn’t suffering. It’s erosion (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it’s what we’re programmed to love (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) 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 Quotes) Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn’t to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it’s about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) 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 Quotes) We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) Sundays tend to be a day where just I do nothing but visit people. It’s kind of like trick-or-treating (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) The only biodiversity we’re going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We’re landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) If you don’t believe what other people believe, then they’ll accuse you of being nihilistic (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I’m shocked by the deeply personal things I’ve put into books without realizing it (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it’s good to add more emotion and chaos. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for great stories. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) I don’t remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) We’re so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane behavior. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom’ by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) Without access to true chaos, we’ll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won’t get any better. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) What they don’t teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can’t understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation’s clothes and hair suddenly retro. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes) The bad news is we don’t have any control. The good news is we can’t make any mistakes. (Chuck Palahniuk Quotes)

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