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Chuck Palahniuk Inspirational Quotes (514)

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Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a hot day. Or a pretty girl.
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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.
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Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
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This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
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Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
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In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
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Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate you can't just be a spectator.
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What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.
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Control the things you can control. As for the rest - God bless it all.
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This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
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The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
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Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
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You can say anything if enough people will listen.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.
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