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You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.
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It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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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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The damaged love the damaged. True fact.
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My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
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At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
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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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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak.
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
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Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
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