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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
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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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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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
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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.
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Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
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Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
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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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This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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You can't be beautiful, Brandy says about a thousand times, until you feel beautiful.
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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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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.
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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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My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
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Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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