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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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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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Art never comes from happiness.
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You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin.
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The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
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To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
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I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
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The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
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When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and so I never really think of myself as anything more than just who I always was.
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The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.
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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.
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Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
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Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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Nothing feels as awful as pouring your heart out to some talk therapist, then realizing this so-called professional is actually vastly stupid and you've just professed your most secret secrets to some goon who's wearing one brown sock and one blue sock.
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The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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I'm working harder than I have ever worked in my entire life, but what the hell, my life is my job now, and my job is my life and that's the way it should be.
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