I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
- I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
- If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
- I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
- You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
- Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
Best Quotes
- Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
- A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
- We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and not hire undocumented or illegals. They can only do that is if they have a Social Security Card that has biometrics so they know whether the person is legal or not.
- Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.
- Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
- I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
- I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.