The first step to eternal life is you have to die. Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk More Quotes From Chuck Palahniuk Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here. Chuck Palahniuk wall shadow men When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity. Chuck Palahniuk glasses drinking fun On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything. Chuck Palahniuk stars moon night 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. Chuck Palahniuk powerful skills hands We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. Chuck Palahniuk rocks stars believe I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place. Chuck Palahniuk outside-world telephones world People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk pain life fall For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real. Chuck Palahniuk real jobs men What we don't understand we can make mean anything. Chuck Palahniuk superstitions acceptance mean The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything. Chuck Palahniuk confused waste girl If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. Chuck Palahniuk competition writing book Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk apples garden eden There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns. Chuck Palahniuk patterns ...no way could I fall in love. I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Chuck Palahniuk falling-in-love pieces expectations Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. Chuck Palahniuk birth-life mistake trying You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have. Chuck Palahniuk smart england kings You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless. Chuck Palahniuk realizing one-day literature Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise. Chuck Palahniuk giving-up white book Let's all embrace someone near us. Pick someone special to you. Tell this someone how you feel. Chuck Palahniuk how-you-feel embrace special Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. Chuck Palahniuk ruins standing dark
