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It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

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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When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.
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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
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Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.
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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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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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It’s weird to think the place where we’re standing will only be a point in the sky.
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I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.
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More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.
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I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.
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The old rule about how a thing of beauty is a joy forever, in my experience, even the most beauteous thing is only a joy for about three hours, tops. After that, she'll want to tell you all about her childhood traumas. Part of meeting these jail girls is it's so sweet to look at your watch and know she'll be behind bars in half an hour.
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Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.
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It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!
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A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.
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Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.
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Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
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This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
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you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
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Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.
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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
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Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
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