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History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

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Chuck Palahniuk
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.
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Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.
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Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
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I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.
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Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.
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You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
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After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.
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There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.
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I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell their story and begin to digest their experience - like turning it into a story - that after the fist few weeks I could go with a pad and pencil and take notes. People didn't seem at all bothered by that.
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All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
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Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.
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You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.
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Don't write about your most emotionally charged moment as a learning thing.
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We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
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