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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
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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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You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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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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You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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The damaged loves the damaged.
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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that I've defined something, given it a name. So I think that is one of the great things a writer can do.
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
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You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
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