{"author":"Chuck Palahniuk","author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk","total_quotes":364,"quotes":[{"text":"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["perspective"],"id":1016,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["happiness"],"id":1687,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["boredom","sin","temptation"],"id":1766,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about that. But I can explore it through a metaphor and make a kind of funny, dark story about it, and in doing so, really exhaust and research as many aspects of it as I can imagine. And in a way, that does give me some closure.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["research","me","dark "],"id":3391,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["promises","words"],"id":3534,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["words"],"id":6996,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["chuck-palahniuk","philosophy","survivor"],"id":8783,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["materialism"],"id":9751,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["future"],"id":10843,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["feminism","humor"],"id":11332,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":364,"pages":37,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}