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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Sobriety is okay enough, Denny says, but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
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Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.
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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
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Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
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The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.
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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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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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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.
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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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