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

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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Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
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Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.
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The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
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Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
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I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.
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The only thing that separates us from the animals... is we have pornography.
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I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.
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Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
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If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.
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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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A couple drinks. A couple aspirin. Repeat.
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Find good in what the world says is evil.
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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.
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We all have some proper noun to blame.
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What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?
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Even if I overcompensate, nobody will ever want me. Not Seth. Not my folks. You can’t kiss someone who has no lips. Oh, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I’ll be anybody you want me to be
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More and more people are defining themselves not by what they are about, but by what they are against, what they are overcoming, the thing that is wrong with them.
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Because tanning and steroids are only a problem if you plan to live a long time.
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I write because it's a way of presenting something without having to be there.
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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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