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Chuck Palahniuk

Charles Michael Palahniuk (/ˈpɔːlənɪk/) (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as "transgressional" fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a popular film of the same name.

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So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation, my this, my horrible drug addiction - they want to tell that most important story, and they don't have the skills to tell it yet, so it ends up becoming a comedy. A powerful story told poorly becomes funny, it just makes people laugh behind their hands.

Hands, People, Powerful, Skills, Story, Tell

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

Die, Forever, Goal, Inspirational, Inspiring, Life

I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.

Cancer, Couldnt, Crazy, Job, Jobs, Rushed

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Enough, Like, Sobriety, Someday, Stuff

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Art, Book, Controlling, Model, Music, Write

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

Born, God, Invisible Monsters, Life, Parent, Want Something

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Comfort, Line, People, See, Waiting In Line, Worse

Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.

Air, Bullshit, Full, Today, Weather

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

Discover, Knows, Pain, Right, Stanislavski

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

Blah, Face, Moon, Stars, White

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Contentious, Lifetime, Politics, World

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

Journey, People, Single, Starts, Step, Steps

The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic. . . to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

Details, Film, Kind, Minimalism, Reader, Writing

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

Brain, Imagine, Planet, Trapped, Two, Would Be

Some mythological fat asswipe drives our national economy.

Asswipe, Drives, Economy, Fats, National, National Economy

Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Bare, Fighting, Final, Shoes, Two

you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

Nightmare, Trapped, World, Worst Nightmares

The ultimate joke was the idea that capitalism would eat its own feces in order to make money, that would make fun of itself if capitalism thought there was a buck in it.

Eat, Fun, Ideas, Order, Thought

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Facts, Feel Better, Game, Games, Shows, Useless

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

Change, College, Marine, Say, Talking

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