Quotes from Chuck Palahniuk

La gente si innamora del proprio dolore al punto che non riesce più ad abbandonarlo. Lo stesso vale per le storie che racconta. Siamo noi stessi a tenerci in trappola».

The door to my boss's office is always closed now, and we haven't traded more than two words any day since he found the fight club rules in the copy machine and I maybe implied I might gut him with a shotgun blast. Just me clowning around, again.

Onun hayat?n? kurtarmaya çal??mak büyük bir zaman kayb?. Ä°nsanlar hayatlar?n?n kurtar?lmas?n? istemiyor. Dramlar?n?n. Önemsiz meselelerinin. Hikayelerinin çözümlenmesini, pisliklerinin temizlenmesini istemiyorlar. Çünkü geriye ne kalaca??n? biliyorlar, Büyük ve korkunç bir bilinmeyen.

Bize inand?r?lan bu gerçek d??? dünyada ya??yoruz, hiçbir teste tabii tutulmad???m?z için neleri kurtarabileceÄŸimiz konusunda hiç bir fikrimiz yok

The way to succeed is giving people a noble reason to do something despicable. And my patients... my clients, my characters are doing kind of scamming, deceptive things but they're doing them for noble reasons. Typically to be loved, to be accepted, to trick someone into embracing them and care for them.

Gelecek ne zamandan beri vaat olmaktan ç?k?p tehdit unsuru haline geldi.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

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.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

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