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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
Screenwriter
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Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
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Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
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If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
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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 only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.
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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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It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.
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Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
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The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.
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Everyone has something wrong. And for a while, her heart just sort of flat lined.
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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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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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Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.
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As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.
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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
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Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.
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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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You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.
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Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.
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