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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
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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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
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I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
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We all have some proper noun to blame.
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I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
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If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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