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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

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
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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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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Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.
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The things you used to own, now they own you.
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The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew. Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.
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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
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There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.
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I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.
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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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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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