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If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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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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If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.
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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, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.
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My life has been about living like a monk and looking like a priest so that people will come up to me and tell me their most appalling stories. They have to make their confession to somebody, and it might as well be me.
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Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
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There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
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If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
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I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
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You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.
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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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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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