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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

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
Trained
Scare
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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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Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination?
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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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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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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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You can say anything if enough people will listen.
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Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
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the world is the cradle and your trap.
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What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
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