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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
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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The answer is there is no answer.
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Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.
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Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
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People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
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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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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
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I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.
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I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.
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When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.
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Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.
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Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
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The more things you own, the more they own you.
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This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.
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