Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

Topics: Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out...

Trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out...

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything...

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything...

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here...

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here...

Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped...

Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped...

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black...

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black...

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you...

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you...

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The cat looks back at me the way dogs and some cars look when people...

The cat looks back at me the way dogs and some cars look when people...

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be...

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give...

The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give...

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.

No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman...

A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman...

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People...

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People...

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a...

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a...

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the...

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the...