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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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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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Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.
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The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
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You’re training a new employee,' says Mrs. Clark, 'to take over your boring old job.' When you raise a child.
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How I feel is cheap and used, dirty and humiliated. Dirty and tricked and thrown away.
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Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Don’t start forgetting stuff. Trim the hair in your ears. Take calcium. Moisturize. Every day. Freeze in time to stay in one place forever. Do not get frigging old.
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I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.
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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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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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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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This isn’t really death, Tyler says, We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old. I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.
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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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Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.
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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
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