#thing

If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#awful #beginning #brighter #coming #dark

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? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#big picture #close-up #everything #forgetting #look

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anything #best #bullies #completely #devil

Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#ever #every #every time #i #i always

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. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#apply #around #been #club #created

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#absolutely #emotionally #everything #filled #get

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#ever #i #never #sequel #will

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#been #completely #date #i #me

The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. ↗