Palahniuk Guts Quotes & Sayings

I had hoped God would be neutral. — Darrell Royal

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that ... The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. — Leo Tolstoy

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. — Nancy Mitford

Once, he reminded himself, I studied hard to learn to save lives. Now I must educate myself in how to take one. — John Katzenbach

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia. — John McCain

As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked? — Chuck Palahniuk

People in France have a phrase: "Spirit of the Stairway." In French: esprit d'Escalier. It means that moment when you find the answer but it's too late. So you're at a party and someone insults you. You have to say something. So, under pressure, with everybody watching, you say something lame. But the moment you leave the party ...
As you start down the stairway, then - magic. You come up with the perfect thing you should've said. The perfect crippling put down. That's the Spirit of the Stairway. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it. — Ken Hutcherson

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis. — Raoul Dufy

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea. — Leigh Bardugo

I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself. — Claes Oldenburg

I don't think 'Guts' could get financed as a movie. — Chuck Palahniuk

You've read accounts of attempts by the Sixth University at Arcara to capture a stone eater for study, two Seasons back. The result was the Seventh University at Dibars, which got built only after they dug enough books out of the rubble of Sixth. — N.K. Jemisin

When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction. — Chuck Palahniuk