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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

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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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.
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The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
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There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.
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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
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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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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
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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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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.
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