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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
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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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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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.
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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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Life is short, death is forever
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You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
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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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Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
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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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Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
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In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.
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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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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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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
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Find good in what the world says is evil.
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The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
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