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The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.

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
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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.
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People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become.
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I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
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The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
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My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
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I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.
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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
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The joke is, we all have the same punchline.
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Maybe we should always assume the worst.
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Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
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Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.
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Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them in 15 minutes. There's a fantastic joy in destroying something that you've meticulously built. Then you're free to build a new thing. Destruction and creation they're inseparable.
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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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You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
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Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.
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My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
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