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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
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To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
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Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
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Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.
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I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves they don't make us any stronger.
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When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.
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Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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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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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
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Everybody's still miserable in the same way they've always been miserable, and more and more of my friends - especially my male friends - find themselves taking anti-anxiety, psychotropic drugs. It seems like everybody I know is wondering if they're really who they are, or once the prescription runs out, will they become someone different?
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Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
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