Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk This is your life and its ending one moment at a time. Chuck Palahniuk momentsinspirationallife The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. Chuck Palahniuk dreamlovelife Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? Chuck Palahniuk crydopelaughing 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. Chuck Palahniuk literaturefunnythinking The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create. Chuck Palahniuk changedreaminspirational If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. Chuck Palahniuk literaturewantlife There's a big difference between "not caring" or being "nihilistic" about a topic and simply not being enrolled by the drama presented by other people. Just because my characters choose not to react in standard, socially-appropriate ways - that does not mean they don't care. They just reject ordinary dramas. Chuck Palahniuk characterdramamean The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors. Chuck Palahniuk differencesmirrorspeople You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying. Chuck Palahniuk dyingsuicideway People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk. Chuck Palahniuk turnswaitingpeople No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy. Chuck Palahniuk luxurymattermissing We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk who-we-arechokeworld We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. Chuck Palahniuk inspiringjobstravel You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. Chuck Palahniuk dyingchildren Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. High art is people driving in Volvos and talking a lot. I just don't want to keep those things separate. I think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. I'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them. Chuck Palahniuk strongspiritualart Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives. Chuck Palahniuk issuesbookideas What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were. Chuck Palahniuk life-isartschool Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO! Chuck Palahniuk hitting-bottomletting-gotrying Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . . Chuck Palahniuk animalmeanpeople There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them. Chuck Palahniuk up-to-youbeautifulpeople
