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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.
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Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.
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We're the culture that cried wolf.
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.
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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
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With insomnia, you're never really awake but you're never really asleep.
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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
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For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.
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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.
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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.
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Life is short, death is forever
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
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