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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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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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Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.
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No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
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You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.
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Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant revision, constant...negation of previous beliefs, and so...the whole world is a twist ending. Every week is a twist ending.
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These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
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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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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.
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That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.
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If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
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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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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
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I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.
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We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.
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I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.
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Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.
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All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.
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