Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

American - Novelist | February 21, 1962 -

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

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The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

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Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

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