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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
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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.
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I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
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Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.
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I think we're in an age starved for genuine experiences, instead of cathartic phony experiences through the media, structured, engineered experiences. And those are the fast food, the masturbation of experience. They don't really exhaust any aspect of ourselves they don't make us any stronger.
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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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A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.
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I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
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I have to have everything in my life completely fixed and perfect and cleaned up and I have to be complete with everyone in my life and I have seven days in which to do that. So I might make it to day three or four, but I've never made it all the way to day seven.
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If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.
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