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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
Screenwriter
Writer
Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
Privacy
Complete
Ignorance
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Mind
Choke

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Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
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My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
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You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?
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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
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We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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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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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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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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I would pay snakes to bite her.
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You always kill the one you love.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
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