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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
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On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.
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I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
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I've been choking to death for years. By now this should be easy.
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As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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