Quotes from Stranger than Fiction

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."
— Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it.

That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together separate macros that, combined, will create a reaction.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Me encantaría creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiría todo el sufrimiento y la presión del mundo físico. Pero también negaría el valor del dinero que tengo en el banco, de mi casa que no está nada mal y de todo mi esfuerzo. Todos nuestros problemas y todo lo bueno que nos pasa podrían desdeñarse simplemente porque no son más reales que las escenas de un libro o una película. Un mundo eterno e invisible convertiría el nuestro en una ilusión.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Slang is the writer's palette of colors.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Nobody used to look at George Washington, with his wooden teeth, in his powdered wig, and say, Fashion Victim.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our aloneness that matters.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“The problem with proximity friends is, they move away. They quit or get fired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

“Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Stranger than Fiction

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