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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
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
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Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.
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If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
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A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.
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Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.
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This wasn't any mere song and dance here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
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Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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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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Life is short, death is forever
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With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page.
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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 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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It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
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Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
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I would pay snakes to bite her.
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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.
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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
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This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.
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