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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

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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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Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
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I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.
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The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.
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Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.
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Just for the record, the weather today is increasing turmoil with a possible physical and emotional breakdown.
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Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
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Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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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 photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.
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And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.
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Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
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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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Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.
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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
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Funerals are all abstract ceremony.
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This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
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There are bodies buried everywhere you just have to know where to look.
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There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
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