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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
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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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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.
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The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
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And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a with-it social register.
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The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.
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She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.
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I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.
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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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Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
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Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.
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It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.
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Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.
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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
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Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
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Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be
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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
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