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Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Privacy
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I'm not sure what we're running from. Nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up. Getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if running we won't have to get on with our lives.
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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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You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
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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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Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
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There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.
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Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
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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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It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
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Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.
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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
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Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.
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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
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