Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis 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 an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
frontier left
The only frontier left is the world of intangibles. Everything else is sewn up too tight.
chick life
There will always be cougars outside. It's such a chick thing to think that life should just go on forever.
apostle escape follow hard running
Every apostle or disciple, as much as they're running to follow their savior- they're running just as hard to escape something else.
erosion rocks people
In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was kind of tumbler. The sale as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. This isn't suffering. It's erosion.
fight-club-book break something-better
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
mistake haunted-houses ifs
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
resolution ifs
If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.
mistake trying birth-life
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
lists lines shows
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
invention letdowns i-realized
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.
coping-mechanisms giving literature
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
mistake past stories
I'm really glad that I made a lot of mistakes, poorly chose my friends throughout my twenties, and didn't have a rocket trajectory that set me on one path without making any mistakes or having any setbacks. The older I get, the more I realize that it's all of these failed, horrible things from my past, and the stories that they generated, that are the things I will draw on for the rest of my life.
dope laughing cry
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
becoming-one becoming stories
I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.