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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
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Brandy is so attractive you could chop her head off and put it on blue velvet in the window at Tiffany's and somebody would buy it for a million dollars.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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If you ask me, reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.
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Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.
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A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
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And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
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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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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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What if reality is nothing but some disease?
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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
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There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
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What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.
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That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.
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