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The things you used to own, now they own you.

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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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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My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.
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A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.
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No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.
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Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.
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On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.
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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
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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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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
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When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.
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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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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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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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Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
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Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
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