Chuck Palahniuk quotes - page 26

You could stab a knife right through my heart and youd be too late. (Chuck Palahniuk)
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. View quote
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Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks. View quote
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world... View quote
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No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline. View quote
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The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. View quote
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I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom. View quote
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In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. View quote
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Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. View quote
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About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota. View quote
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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. (Chuck Palahniuk)
I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out. View quote
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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. View quote
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. View quote
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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. View quote
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My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen. View quote
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel. View quote
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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. View quote
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I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them. View quote
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I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart. View quote
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Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. (Chuck Palahniuk)
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. View quote
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I think America is just so in love with conflict. View quote
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People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves. View quote
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Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. View quote
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