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Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
Bruises
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Fighting

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I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
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I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
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