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I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

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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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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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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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.
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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
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Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
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Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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You can say anything if enough people will listen.
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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