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The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

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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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
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It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
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He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
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The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
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In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
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A good story should change the way you see the world.
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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
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What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
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Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.
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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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I tiger can smile A snake will say it loves you Lies make us evil
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Love and life belongs to great risk.
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I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
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Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
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Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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What if reality is nothing but some disease?
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