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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
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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If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.
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I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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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.
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Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing? I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
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Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
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Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.
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