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I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

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
Byproduct
Toxic
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Creation

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Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?
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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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It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
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Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
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You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
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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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And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.
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I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.
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Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.
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Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
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On a night without moon or stars you can't see a thing, but you can imagine anything.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.
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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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Maybe we should always assume the worst.
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