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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.
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Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.
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A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
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When someone walks in and you say a six-foot-tall man, you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.
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When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
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We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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If you're not drunk and half naked by this point, you're not paying attention.
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
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You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
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I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.
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