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the world is the cradle and your trap.

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
Trap
Cradle
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World

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How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.
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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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And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
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The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.
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There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.
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