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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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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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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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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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Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
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You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
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For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.
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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
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In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
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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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This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.
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