Chuck Palahniuk on Human Nature
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, entry #116648: "This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat."
Attributed to Chuck Palahniuk, entry #46647: "The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real."
5 Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk on Human Nature
"This is just what human beings do-turn objects into people, people into objects. Back and forth. Tit for tat."
"The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real."
"These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics."
"According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy."
"In the big factory of perfecting human souls, the Earth was a kind of tumbler. The same as the kind people use to polish rocks. All souls come here to rub the sharp edges off each other. All of us, we're meant to be worn smooth by conflict and pain of every kind. To be polished. There was nothing bad about this. This wasn't suffering. It was erosion. It was just another, a basic, an important step in the refining process."