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The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.
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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
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Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.
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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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Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
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Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.
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You can’t fool people into loving you.
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