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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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And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
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I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
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HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.
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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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Just let your hand drop and let fate decide for you.
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You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
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It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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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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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
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Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic.
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You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
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My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
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