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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
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.
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My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.
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We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.
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Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
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The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.
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You can say anything if enough people will listen.
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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
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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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Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
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There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.
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I have a lot of money.
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My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.
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I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
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Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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The answer is there is no answer.
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