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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Charles Michael Chuck Palahniuk
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I don't want to die without a few scars.
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Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
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A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
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It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
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Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.
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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
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And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
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The body ages. grows. passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person. That... that is proof of your deathless soul.
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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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There's worse that people can steal from you than money.
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are…Or we can decide for ourselves.
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People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.
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Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
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Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.
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You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
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A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
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What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that could happen.
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