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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
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.
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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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Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.
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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
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The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.
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You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.
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There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.
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You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.
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No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
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She's so thin she's either dying or rich.
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Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
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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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To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
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We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
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