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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

Chuck Palahniuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Why Seem Lives Writers

One of the things about being online is it's hard to forget people, so it's very easy to stalk an ex, it's very easy to follow what people are doing. It's almost impossible to forget them.

People Impossible Doing Easy Forget

If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gradually bring it to the boil, it'll sit right there until it dies. Scotland has been sitting in England's gradually boiling water for so long that many people are used to it.

Water People Cold Long You Jump

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Stephen Hawking

God Science Universe Need Explain

When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.

Michel Hazanavicius

Time Job Soul Long You Emotions

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Dorothea Brande

Smoke Through Screen Brothers Flew

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

Women Time Society Pressure Perfect

Ronald Reagan's vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

Confidence Vision Government Strong

Everybody says they want to win. But when you start talking about sacrifice and doing what's right for the team, it's like, 'Wait a minute, I didn't mean that. I want to win, but...' There's always a conjunction with that. It's never what you think it is. And it's always, like, your weakest point where you got to do it.

Sacrifice Team Wait Win Start Think

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Television Garbage Beverly Hills Away

I often eat Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I don't shamefully sneak it in the dark of night when everyone is in bed. I just twist that cap off and go to town right out in the open.

Night Dark Bed Go Cap Right

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

War Forest Global Just Systems Some

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada.

Car Moment Police Thinking Remember

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