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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

There will always be an underground.

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1962

Topics

Will Always Underground

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

Children Shopping Small Chance Down

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Johannes Brahms

New Out Anything Handle Melody Make

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

Food Practice Think America Bias

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Discipline Better Cage Politicians

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

Steve Jurvetson

Space Exploration Office Always Been

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Way Out Get How Figure Characters

At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

World Seeing Back Been Around Had

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

Me Performance Free Game Dark Young

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

Tears Surprise Writer Reader

Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

New York River People New Last

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

Mary Harris Jones

Work Children Day Birds Night Song

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

Funny Happy Short Dark Kind Never

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