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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.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
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We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
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I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
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Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
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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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At That Moment, it seemed the whole world cared what happened to him. All those people were hugging him and petting his hair. Everybody asked if he was okay. It seemed that moment would last forever. That you had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
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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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Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.
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We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.
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The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of comfort food we expect to lull us to sleep.
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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.
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In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.
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