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You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Pasco
Washington
Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
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Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.
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Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
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We'll never be as young as we are tonight.
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This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
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Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
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A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
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The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
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I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.
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